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The State Farm Center is a large dome-shaped 15,544-seat indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The arena hosts games for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball , women's basketball , and wrestling teams.
The construction of State Farm Center, originally known as the Assembly Hall, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign consisted of building a huge indoor arena with a 400-foot-diameter (120 m) concrete dome whose center height is 125 feet (38 m) above the center floor, and which weighs 10 million pounds. [1]
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Market Place Shopping Center is a shopping mall located in Champaign, Illinois, US. The mall's anchor stores are Dick's Sporting Goods House of Sport , JCPenney , Macy's , and Costco Wholesale . It is the second largest enclosed shopping mall in Central Illinois .
Albert Eisner, Sr. (1851-1926), a Hungarian immigrant, incorporated Eisner Grocery Company in June 1906 in Champaign, Illinois.In 1919, he entered into a franchise agreement with Piggly Wiggly, the first self-serve grocery store, [1] and opened a few Piggly Wiggly locations in Champaign and the surrounding areas.
State Farm Insurance is a group of mutual insurance companies throughout the United States with corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1922, it is the largest property, casualty, and auto insurance provider in the United States.
The State Farm Research and Development Center opened in January 2005 at the University of Illinois’ Research Park. State Farm has been involved in academic programming, student assistance and research at U of I for over 35 years, but this facility allows for of college interns working on projects to benefit the company as a whole, while students get to apply what they learn in class to ...
VIP Parts, Tires and Service moved into the Sears Automotive Center. [3] [4] Staples had opened in 2004, taking part of an anchor space previously occupied by Porteous. [5] That Porteous store, closed in 2003, was the last in the chain. [6] The 525,000-square-foot (48,800 m 2) building is the third largest enclosed shopping mall in Maine. In ...