TJ Blakeman
Jun 2, 20184 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20186 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20182 min read
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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TJ Blakeman
Jan 31, 20182 min read
99th Pursuit Squadron
Breaden Belcher, CCHM Museum Manager During World War II, the United States armed forces were segregated. But this didn’t stop African...
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Doug Peterson
Jan 30, 20183 min read
‘A Desolation for Wandering Cattle and Pigs’: The First U of I Class Encounters the Elephant
The University of Illinois began with one lone building, which looked out on a wide, open landscape on the southeast corner of University...
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Jason Peterson
Dec 31, 20174 min read
A Glacier Runs Through it: How Champaign County Got its Shape
Although Champaign County was named after a county in Ohio, its name couldn’t be more fitting. Champaign means “level, open country.”...
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Adele M. Suslick
Sep 28, 20175 min read
DAVID ANDERSON AND THE BATTLE OF PELELIU
The Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania launched the Island Mail in 1941. Built to carry 499 passengers, it...
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TJ Blakeman
Sep 28, 20175 min read
David Anderson and the Battle of Peleliu
By Adele M. Suslick, Museum Education Committee Chair The Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania launched the...
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