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Urbana, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Urbana a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Urbana Home page. The Urbana Home page provides as much information as possible on Urbana. Knowing Urbana’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Urbana’s Home page, you will also find Urbana’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Urbana has a population of 42461. 49.4% of Urbana’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 25.8% of Urbana is married and 33.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $151,728, and the average rent is $833. Household median income in Urbana is $35,984, and the individual median income is $22,746. Urbana’s Ethnic is the following: White(58.6%), Black(18.4%), Asian(17.3%), Hispanic(7.8%), Multiple(4.3%), Other(1.2%), Native(0.2%).
The Urbana area was first settled by Europeans in 1822, when it was called "Big Grove". When the county of Champaign was organized in 1833, the county seat was located on 40 acres of land, 20 acres donated by William T. Webber and 20 acres by Col. M. W. Busey, considered to be the city's founder, and the name "Urbana" was adopted after Urbana, Ohio, the hometown of State Senator John W.
Vance, who authored the Enabling Act creating Champaign County. The creation of the new town was celebrated for the first time on July 4, 1833.Stores began opening in 1834. The first mills were founded in c.1838-50. The town's first church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the parsonage, was built in 1840 by the Rev.
A. Bradshaw, with the Baptist Church following in 1855. The Presbyterian Church was founded in 1856. The city's first school was built in 1854.Urbana suffered a setback when the Chicago branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, which had been expected to pass through town, was instead laid down two miles west, where the land was flatter.
The town of West Urbana grew up around the train depot built there in 1854, and in 1861 its name was changed to Champaign. The competition between the two cities provoked Urbana to tear down the ten-year-old County Courthouse and replace it with a much larger and fancier structure, to ensure that the county seat would remain in Urbana.Champaign-Urbana was selected as the site for a new state agricultural school, thanks to the efforts of Clark Griggs.
Illinois Industrial University, which would evolve into the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, opened in 1868 with 77 students.A number of efforts to merge Urbana and Champaign have failed at the polls.On October 9, 1871 a fire burned much of downtown Urbana. Children playing with matches started the fire.
(It is unrelated to the Great Chicago Fire of the same day, though both fires occurred during severe drought and were spread by high winds.)
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