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Urbana, Illinois

Index Urbana, Illinois

Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. [1]

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Adequate Yearly Progress

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized tests.

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Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

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Air1

Air1 is a U.S. Christian radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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AM stereo

AM stereo is a term given to a series of mutually incompatible techniques for radio broadcasting stereo audio in the AM band in a manner that is compatible with standard AM receivers.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Area code 217

Area code 217 is the North American telephone area code for much of western, central, and parts of southern Illinois.

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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research.

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Beginning of the End (film)

Beginning of the End is a 1957 independently made American black-and-white science fiction giant insects film, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon.

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Bert I. Gordon

Bert Ira Gordon (born September 24, 1922) is an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as The Amazing Colossal Man and Village of the Giants.

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Campus radio

Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.

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Cave automatic virtual environment

A cave automatic virtual environment (better known by the recursive acronym CAVE) is an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to between three and six of the walls of a room-sized cube.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Champaign County, Illinois

Champaign County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area

The Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, also known as Champaign-Urbana and Urbana-Champaign, is a metropolitan area in east-central Illinois.

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Charles Carpenter (lieutenant colonel)

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago (musical)

Chicago is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse.

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Chicago metropolitan area

The Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, is the metropolitan area that includes the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs.

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Classic hits

Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes rock and pop music from the early/mid 1960s through the mid/late 1980s (sometimes early/mid 1990s).

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Community gardening

A community garden is a single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.

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Community radio

Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting.

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Conrail

Conrail, the Consolidated Rail Corporation,, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999, when its routes were split between the CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway.

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Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music (or CCM—and occasionally "inspirational music") is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith.

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Contemporary hit radio

Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, and the Philippines, that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the top 40 music charts.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Eastern Illinois Foodbank

Eastern Illinois Foodbank (EIF) opened its doors in June 1983.

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Electronic Visualization Laboratory

The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is a cross-disciplinary research lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Embarras River (Illinois)

The Embarras River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Galatea 2.2

Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth.

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Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

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Haizhu District

Haizhu District is one of the ten districts in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China.

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HAL 9000

HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.

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HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Illini Media

The Illini Media Company is a nonprofit, student media company based in Champaign, Illinois.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama.

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Illinois Route 130

Illinois Route 130 is a north–south state road in eastern Illinois.

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Illinois Standards Achievement Test

The Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) measured individual student achievement relative to the Illinois Learning Standards.

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Illinois State Board of Education

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) administers public education in the state of Illinois.

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Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway

The Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway was a railroad that once operated in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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Interstate 74 in Illinois

Interstate 74 (I-74) in the U.S. state of Illinois is a major northwest–southeast Interstate Highway that runs across the central portion of the state.

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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) professionally known as Jack Lemmon, was an American actor and musician.

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Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain.

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Joseph Royer (architect)

Joseph William Royer (1873–1954) was a prolific architect from Urbana, Illinois who designed many prominent buildings in Urbana, Champaign, and beyond.

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Joseph Vance

Joseph Vance (March 21, 1786 – August 24, 1852) was a Whig politician from Ohio.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Kenney Gym and Kenney Gym Annex

The Kenney Gym and the Kenney Gym Annex are two buildings located at 1402-06 Springfield Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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KHRI (FM)

KHRI (90.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format.

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Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is an educational and performing arts complex located at 500 South Goodwin Street in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Laboratory school

A laboratory school or demonstration school is an elementary or secondary school operated in association with a university, college, or other teacher education institution and used for the training of future teachers, educational experimentation, educational research, and professional development.

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Lincoln the Lawyer

Lincoln the Lawyer, also known as The Young Circuit Lawyer, Young Lincoln or simply Abraham Lincoln, is a Lorado Taft sculpture now located on the 1000 block of Race Street, Urbana, Illinois across from Urbana High School in Carle Park.

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List of counties in Illinois

There are 102 counties in the state of Illinois.

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List of municipalities in Illinois

Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

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Lorado Taft

Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860 – October 30, 1936) was an American sculptor, writer and educator.

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Malawi

Malawi (or; or maláwi), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

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Mansfield, Illinois

Mansfield is a village in Piatt County, Illinois in the United States.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Mayor–council government

The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Municipal charter

A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document (charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated as MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV), is an American television network/syndication service that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of 20th Television.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Alternaversal Productions, LLC.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.

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Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Class I railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1968 until 1976.

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Peoria and Eastern Railway

The Peoria and Eastern Railway was incorporated on February 21, 1890, for the purpose of constructing or acquiring a railway between Pekin, Illinois, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Philo, Illinois

Philo is a village about nine miles south of Urbana in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Plowing the Dark

Plowing the Dark (2000) is a novel by American writer Richard Powers.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Prairie State Achievement Examination

The Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) was a two-day standardized test taken by all High School Juniors in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Radio Data System

Radio Data System (RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Savoy, Illinois

Savoy is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sidney, Illinois

Sidney is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Sister Cities International

Sister Cities International (SCI) is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network that creates and strengthens partnerships between communities in the United States and those in other countries, particularly through the establishment of "sister cities".

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film set in 1929, directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Spurlock Museum

The William R. and Clarice V. Spurlock Museum, better known as the Spurlock Museum, is an ethnographic museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Station Theatre (Urbana)

The Station Theatre is a small independent dramatics theatre located in downtown Urbana, Illinois.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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Tallgrass prairie

The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.

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The CW

The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as just The CW) is an American English-language broadcast television network that is operated by the CW Network, LLC, a limited liability joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network (UPN), and Warner Bros. Entertainment, former majority owner of The WB.

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The Daily Illini

The Daily Illini, commonly known as the DI, is a student-run newspaper that has been published for the community of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1871.

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The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana)

The News-Gazette is a daily newspaper serving eleven counties in the eastern portion of Central Illinois and specifically the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.

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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades but who was mostly popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Trinity Broadcasting Network

The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is an international Christian-based broadcast television network and the world's largest religious television network.

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Tudor Revival architecture

Tudor Revival architecture (commonly called mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture beginning in the United Kingdom in the mid to late 19th century based on a revival of aspects of Tudor architecture or, more often, the style of English vernacular architecture of the Middle Ages that survived into the Tudor period.

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U.S. Route 150

U.S. Route 150 (abbreviated Route 150 or U.S. 150) is a 571-mile (919 km) long northwest-southeast United States highway, signed as east–west.

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U.S. Route 45

U.S. Route 45 is a major north–south United States highway and a border-to-border route, from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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UIUC Campus Recreation Center – East (CRCE)

The Campus Recreation Center - East, more commonly known as CRCE (pronounced "SIR-see"), is an athletic facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for students and members completed in 1988.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois)

The University of Illinois Laboratory High School, known as Uni, or Uni High, was established in 1921 and is a laboratory school located on the engineering section of the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Illinois.

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University of Illinois Arboretum

The University of Illinois Arboretum is a new arboretum, with gardens, currently under construction on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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University of Illinois Conservatory and Plant Collection

The University of Illinois Conservatory and Plant Collection is a conservatory and botanical garden located in the Plant Sciences Laboratory Greenhouses, on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, 1201 South Dorner Drive, Urbana, Illinois.

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University of Illinois Willard Airport

University of Illinois Willard Airport is south of Savoy in Tolono Township, Champaign County, Illinois.

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Urban adult contemporary

Urban adult contemporary (often abbreviated as urban AC) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format.

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Urbana High School (Illinois)

Urbana High School is the only public high school in Urbana, Illinois and was established in 1872.

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Urbana, Ohio

Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Ohio, United States, west of Columbus.

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Variety (radio)

Variety is a radio format that plays music across numerous genres.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic.

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Volksmarching

Volksmarching (from German "", people's march) is a form of non-competitive fitness walking that developed in Europe in the mid-late 1960s.

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WAND

WAND is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States and serving the Central Illinois region.

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WBCP

WBCP (1580 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Adult Contemporary music format.

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WBGL

WBGL is a Christian radio station licensed to Champaign, Illinois and owned by the Illinois Bible Institute, the educational branch of the Illinois District Council of the Assemblies of God.

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WBUI

WBUI is the CW-affiliated television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States and serving the Central Illinois region.

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WCIA

WCIA is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Champaign, Illinois, United States and serving the Central Illinois region.

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WCIX

WCIX is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States and serving the Central Illinois region.

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WCZQ

WCZQ (Hot 105.5) is an urban contemporary-leaning rhythmic contemporary station serving Champaign, Illinois.

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WDWS

WDWS (1400 kHz AM) is a news-talk radio station in Champaign, Illinois.

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WEFT

WEFT Champaign 90.1FM is a listener-supported community radio station in Champaign, Illinois, founded in 1981 and owned by Prairie Air, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation.

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WEIU-TV

WEIU-TV channel 51 is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member public television station in Charleston, Illinois.

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WGKC

WGKC (105.9 FM, "U.S. 105.9") is a country music radio station licensed to Mahomet, Illinois and broadcasting in the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois radio market.

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WGNJ

WGNJ is a Christian radio station licensed to St. Joseph, Illinois, broadcasting on 89.3 MHz FM.

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WGNN

WGNN is a Christian radio station licensed to Fisher, Illinois, broadcasting on 102.5 MHz FM.

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WHMS-FM

WHMS-FM (97.5 FM), is a soft adult contemporary formatted radio station in Champaign, Illinois.

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WHPO

WHPO (100.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format.

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WICD (TV)

WICD is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Champaign, Illinois, United States and also serving Urbana and Danville.

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WILL

WILL is the call sign of the three public broadcasting stations owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and licensed to Urbana, Illinois, United States.

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WIXY

WIXY (100.3 MHz FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format.

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WJCI

WJCI is an FM radio station located in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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WJEK

WJEK (95.3 FM, "Christian FM 95.3") is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format.

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WKIO

WKIO (107.9 FM, "Classic Hits 107.9") is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format.

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WLRW

WLRW (94.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WPCD

WPCD (88.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Alternative format.

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WPGU

WPGU 107.1 is a fully commercial student-run college radio station located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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WQQB

WQQB (96.1 MHz, Q96) is a rhythmic-leaning CHR (Top 40) radio station broadcasting in the Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, radio market.

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WREE

WREE (92.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format.

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WRFU-LP

WRFU-LP (104.5 FM, "Radio Free Urbana") is a radio station broadcasting a variety music format.

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WRSP-TV

WRSP-TV is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States and also serving Decatur.

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WSJK

WSJK (93.5 FM), known as ESPN Radio 93.5, is a radio station in Tuscola, Illinois that serves the Champaign, Illinois area.

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WYXY

WYXY is a radio station licensed for Savoy, Illinois on 99.1 MHz and owned by Saga Communications' Illini Radio Group.

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Zomba, Malawi

Zomba is a city in southern Malawi, in the Shire Highlands.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbana,_Illinois

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