Champaign (English /ˌʃæmˈpeɪn/) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The city is located 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, 124 miles (200 km) west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 mi (286 km) northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with its sister city of Urbana. Champaign is also the home of Parkland College which serves about 18,000 students during the academic year. Due to the university and a number of well known technology startup companies, it is often referred to as the hub, or a significant landmark, of the Silicon Prairie.
Population: 81,055
Latitude: 40° 06' 59.11" N
Longitude: -88° 14' 36.17" W
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, University of Illinois, UIUC, or simply Illinois) is a public research-intensive university in the U.S. state of Illinois. A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University o…
Champaign (English /ˌʃæmˈpeɪn/) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The city is located 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, 124 miles (200 km) west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 mi (286 km) northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. …
The Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter was a long-range heavy military cargo aircraft based on the B-29 bomber. Design work began in 1942, with the prototype's first flight being on 9 November 1944, and the first production aircraft entered service in 1947…
Not to be confused with Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio
President, Stephen Wolfram
The State Farm Center (formerly Assembly Hall) is a large dome-shaped indoor arena, located in Champaign, Illinois, and is owned and operated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorized the Nation…
Chanute Air Force Base is a closed United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air F…
Champaign County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 201,081. It is the 10th-most populous county in Illinois.
WCIA is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Central Illinois region of the United States that is licensed to Champaign, Illinois.
University of Illinois Willard Airport (IATA: CMI, ICAO: KCMI, FAA LID: CMI) is south of Savoy in Tolono Township, Champaign County, Illinois.
The University of Illinois Laboratory High School, known as Uni, or Uni High, was established in 1921 and is a laboratory school located in Urbana, IL on the engineering section of the University of Illinois campus. Its enrollment is approximately 3…
Memorial Stadium is a football stadium located in Champaign, Illinois, in the United States, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The stadium is dedicated as a memorial to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign st…
For the Illinois village previously known as Rantoul see Alma, Illinois
The University of Illinois College of Law (UIUC Law) is a tier-one flagship law school located in Champaign, Illinois on the main campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mahomet /məˈhɒmɨt/ is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,258 at the 2010 census.
A Geospatial Web (pronunciation: 'gēō-spãy-shee-ăl wěb') or Geoweb is a computer network which pairs geographic (e.g. two-dimensional maps) or geospatial (e.g. three-dimensional pictures) underlay systems with a Geotag overlay system for the purpose…
Parkland College is a two-year community college in Champaign, Illinois, a member of the Illinois Community College System serving Community College District 505. District 505 includes all of Ford County, and parts of Coles, Champaign, DeWitt, Dougl…