TJ Blakeman
- Jun 2, 2018
- 4 min
Buried Treasure: Converting Champaign County’s Swampy Prairies to Farmland
By Jason Peterson, Feature Writer Travelers entering Champaign County today would stumble upon miles and miles of cultivated farmland....
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champaigncohistory
- May 6, 2018
- 3 min
Prehn's: A Student Tradition
Prehn's On Oregon, Champaign County History Museum If you were a student at the University of Illinois between 1927 and 1966, then there...
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Jessica Ballard
- Feb 24, 2018
- 6 min
African American Student Housing at the University of Illinois
As I began my faculty appointment at the University of Illinois Archives, I was given the privilege to finish a digital story map that...
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Doug Peterson
- Feb 23, 2018
- 4 min
Stranger Things: How Oysters, Quails, and Clark R. Griggs Brought the U of I to Champaign County
Clark Robinson Griggs and Family. Source: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Choosing the location for the University of...
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Breaden Belcher, Museum Manager
- Jan 31, 2018
- 2 min
99th Pursuit Squadron
99th Pursuit Squadron at Chanute Air Field Source: Museum of the Grand Prairie, Mahomet, Illinois During World War II, the United States...
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