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From 1992 until 2010, the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, or CUTC, performed plays at the theatre. CUTC once again performs shows starting in 2016. Since 2015, That's What She Said, an annual presentation by The She Said Project, has been a popular event at the theatre providing a spotlight on local women's stories. [9]
Memorial Stadium is a stadium on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States.The stadium, used primarily for football, is a memorial to the university's students who died in World War I; their names are engraved on the nearly 200 pillars surrounding the stadium's façade. [5]
The State Farm Center is a large dome-shaped 15,544-seat indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The arena hosts games for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball , women's basketball , and wrestling teams.
The stadium's opening game was instead against Coventry City for Morecambe's League Cup first-round tie on 10 August, [12] in which Morecambe marked the occasion by beating their Championship opponents 2–0, with Andy Fleming scoring the first two goals at the stadium. [13] The first league game at the Globe Arena was a 0–0 draw with ...
Huff Hall is a 4,050-seat multi-purpose arena in Champaign, Illinois, United States.The arena opened in 1925 and was known as Huff Gymnasium until the 1990s. It is named after George Huff, who was the school's athletic director from 1895 to 1935.
The construction of State Farm Center, originally known as the Assembly Hall, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign consisted of building a huge indoor arena with a 400-foot-diameter (120 m) concrete dome whose center height is 125 feet (38 m) above the center floor, and which weighs 10 million pounds. [1]
In 2016, the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation commissioned an Economic Impact Report with support from community sponsors. [22] The report found that the airport had a total of $74,325,994 annual economic impact and a $204,000 daily impact within Champaign County.
The cultural center was divided into two parts, the theatre and the planetarium, which together cost an estimated $4.2 million to build. ( News-Gazette ) The planetarium was named after Parkland College's founding president, who led the college for the first 20 years of its life, during the dedication on 1987-10-01.