History of the Name of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Form

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[Music] the illinois union is an icon here at the university of illinois urbana-champaign it took 32 years of planning to create this glorious building welcome my name is andreas i'm an urban planner and an engineer this is how to build the world [Music] constructed in 1941 the union is a place for students to gather relax and study and for 80 years the union evolved to become many different things but it was always home away from home but why do we have unions anyways a student union is a physical building owned by the university with the purpose of giving students services the first student union was built in 1896 at the university of pennsylvania but it was more like a clubhouse than anything else [Music] in 1909 the graduating class desired a student union but it turned out to be a very expensive building ten years later the university's women's and men's league decided to become one big organization and they called themselves the student union organization as an organization they