Gross Sq. Feet |
No. of Buildings |
|
Chicago |
8,426,413 |
95 |
Springfield |
762,650 |
55 |
Urbana-Champaign |
16,713,271 |
1,048 |
Total |
25,902,334 |
1,198 |
Note: The Chicago campus opened in 1965 to replace the two-year undergraduate division at Navy Pier. The Chicago campus also includes space at the University´s Medical Center. The Springfield campus was founded in 1970 as an upper division institution and joined the University of Illinois system in July, 1995. The Urbana-Champaign campus, chartered in 1867, is the State´s land grant university and has a large number of agricultural buildings and space with several buildings dated pre 1900.