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The Champaign–Urbana Mass Transit District (colloquially known as the MTD) is a mass transit system that operates in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area in central-eastern Illinois. MTD is headquartered in Urbana and operates its primary hub at the intermodal Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign .
The Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, also known as Champaign–Urbana and Urbana–Champaign as well as Chambana (colloquially), is a metropolitan area in east-central Illinois. As defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the metropolitan area has a population of 235,608 as of the 2023 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, which ranks ...
Illinois 10 has undergone major changes since it was initially established. Originally, SBI Route 10 followed Interstate 72 much more closely and ran from Jacksonville to Danville . Over the years, it has been dropped from Jacksonville, reinstated in Decatur , dropped entirely west of Danville, reapplied and dropped in Havana and then finally ...
Little changed until 2007, when IDOT notified Champaign County of available funding specifically for rural public transportation. As an indication of the necessity of transit service to the area, Rantoul resident Wendell Golston began Rantoul U-C Express, a private bus service, from Rantoul to Champaign-Urbana on May, 16, 2008. [3]
Champaign (/ ˌ ʃ æ m ˈ p eɪ n / sham-PAYN) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in the state outside the Chicago metropolitan area . [ 3 ]
Illinois Terminal was built with funds provided by the Federal Transit Administration, Illinois Department of Transportation, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District and the city of Champaign, [2] and was named for the Illinois Terminal Railroad, an electric interurban line that ran from Champaign, and at one time extended as far as St. Louis.
Champaign elevators were operated by C.A. Dickey, Champaign Cereal Mills and Elevator in 1913; also Dryer and Burt Grain and Coal in 1913. Savoy elevator (Section 36) was built along the Illinois Central—Canadian National railroad. Savoy Grain and Coal Company operated a wooden elevator, no longer standing, in 1913.
The Champaign County Poor Farm was in Section 16. The site on East Main Street in Urbana now has county offices, jail and nursing home. The western section of the Kickapoo Rail Trail follows the former Big Four—Conrail System railroad right–of–way along U.S. Route 150 from the City of Urbana to the Village of St. Joseph.