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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 ...
The Urbana area was first settled by Europeans in 1822, [4] when it was called "Big Grove". [5] When the county of Champaign was organized in 1833, the county seat was located on 40 acres of land, 20 acres donated by William T. Webber and 20 acres by M. W. Busey, considered to be the city's founder, and the name "Urbana" was adopted [4] after Urbana, Ohio, the hometown of State Senator John W ...
Urbana: 58: Wee Haven: Wee Haven: December 15, 2011 : 1509 W. Park Ave. Champaign: 59: Women's Gymnasium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Women's Gymnasium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: February 5, 2003 : 906 S Goodwin Ave.
The Downtown Urbana Historic District is a commercial historic district encompassing seven city blocks in downtown Urbana, Illinois. The buildings in the district reflects downtown Urbana's development as the county seat of Champaign County and a regional commercial center. While Urbana was founded in the 1830s and began its development in the ...
The William R. and Clarice V. Spurlock Museum, better known as the Spurlock Museum, is an ethnographic museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The Spurlock Museum's permanent collection includes portions of collections from other museums and units on the Urbana-Champaign campus such as cultural artifacts from the Museum of Natural History and Department of Anthropology as well ...
The Virginia Theatre hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year. Classic films play on the 56-foot-wide screen several nights every month. The theatre is also a popular venue for touring musical acts and comedians. From 1992 until 2010, the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, or CUTC, performed plays at the theatre.
The Krannert Art Museum (KAM) is a fine art museum located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States.It has 48,000 square feet (4,500 m 2) of space devoted to all periods of art, dating from ancient Egypt to contemporary photography.
Urbana, IL named a Top Startup City by Popular Mechanics, mainly due to the UI Research Park community [8] One of Three College-Town Incubators to watch by Inc.com in June 2013 [ 9 ] One of 12 Business Incubators Changing the World by Forbes.com in 2013 [ 10 ]