Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. In 2023, the system had a ridership of ...
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.
Suburban Express began operating in late 1983. [3] At that time, scheduled bus service between Champaign and the Chicago area in Illinois was a monopoly [4] operated by Greyhound Lines, [1] and reinforced by exclusive ticket sales through the Illini Union Travel Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). [5]
The Illinois Terminal is an intermodal passenger transport center located at 45 East University Avenue in Champaign, Illinois, United States.The facility opened in January 1999 and provides Amtrak train service and various bus services to the Champaign-Urbana area.
Champaign County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 Census, its population was 205,865, [1] making it the 10th-most populous county in Illinois.
The report found that the airport had a total of $74,325,994 annual economic impact and a $204,000 daily impact within Champaign County. The 23,266 visitors coming to the area each year because of the airport helped created 112.8 jobs locally.
The third largest Illinois arena after the United Center in Chicago and the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, State Farm Center has 15,544 permanent seats but, when portable chairs are placed on the floor for an in-the-round performance, there is a potential for an additional 1,000 depending on the stage configuration.
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 ]