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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.
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.
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.
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 Orpheum was the main vaudeville stop in Champaign and Urbana, and a member of the noted Orpheum Circuit. It played host to many famous vaudevillians, including Trixie Friganza , Red Skelton , Harry Houdini (1923), Chic Sale , Virginia Sale , Will Rogers (1915), the Marx Brothers (1918), Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1921), Jack Benny (1922 ...
The complex, consisting of St. John's Catholic Chapel and Newman Hall, a 300-bed residence, was built in 1926-28 at the cost of $750,000, only the third Newman Center in the U.S. The complex was added to in 2006, with a new wing increasing the capacity of Newman Hall to 600, and other amenities; as part of the $40 million project the original ...
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Seating capacity 1361 [ 1 ] The Foellinger Auditorium , located at 709 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois , on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , is a concert hall and the university's largest lecture hall.