CHAMPAIGN HISTORY

A photograph from the book "I Fly the Flag," written by Betsy Ross, niece of the University President Arthur Willard. (Stipes Publishing...

Marian Anderson visits the University of Illinois.

Just thirteen days before the Presidential election of 1956, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat arrived in Champaign aboard a...

This article first appeared in History Matters, the monthly newsletter of the Champaign Count History Museum. Located just north of Kirby...

Senator John F. Kennedy's Visit to Champaign-Urbana October 24, 1960 I understand that my blog is primarily for the documentation of...