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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.
03001201 [1] Added to NRHP. November 28, 2003. The Virginia Theatre is a live performance and movie theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois. It has been providing theatrical and cinematic entertainment to the Champaign-Urbana community since its doors opened in 1921. Each year, the Virginia Theatre is host to movies from film reels, plays from ...
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 ]
Jan 30, 1991. Electrical engineer and physicist; two time Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Steve Chen. Aug 18, 1978. Co-founder of YouTube. Graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Jawed Karim. Jan 1, 1979.
The first concert was held on September 22, 1985, at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois, before a crowd of 80,000 people. [1] Performers included Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty, among others, [2] and raised over $9 million for U.S. family farmers. [3]
Asphalt. Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] University of Illinois Willard Airport(IATA: CMI, ICAO: KCMI, FAALID: CMI) is south of Savoyin Tolono Township, Champaign County, Illinois, United States. It is owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaignand is named for former University of Illinois president Arthur ...
Pygmalion Music Festival. The Pygmalion Festival, known also as PYGMALION, is a multi-day festival named for the Slowdive album of the same name, which takes place in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States every September. Shows run concurrently at multiple venues, in the style of SXSW. Local bands are showcased along with national touring ...
Coordinates: 40.096°N 88.236°W. 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 ...