Excerpt from Catalogue and Circular of the Illinois Industrial University: Urbana, Champaign County, Ill., 1879-80 The University has a beautiful and healthful situation on the high grounds between the cities of Champaign and Urbana, and within the corporate limits of the latter. It is one hundred and twenty-eight miles south from Chicago, at the junction of the Illi 'nois Central railroad and the Indiana, Bloomington and Western railway. The county is a region of beautiful rolling prairies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.