Champaign, Illinois

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Champaign

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Champaign.

5 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Orpheum Theatre (Champaign, Illinois) · 0.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Get this: one of the most famous theater design firms in America built this spot for both live shows and movies! In 1914, the Orpheum Theater, designed by Rapp & Rapp, opened here in Champaign. But get this, there was…

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 0.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Get ready to learn about a place that started with a dream in 1867! This is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the whole University of Illinois system. It all started when the Illinois…

• Morrow Plots · 1.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Ever wonder how we learned to feed the world? Right here in Champaign, you're near the Morrow Plots, the oldest experimental agricultural field in the United States. Back in 1876, the University of Illinois established…

• Astronomical Observatory (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) · 1.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Peer into the past at this historic observatory, where astronomers once gazed at the cosmos. Imagine it's 1896. The University of Illinois builds this observatory, designed by Charles A. Gunn. Inside, scientists begin…

• Lincoln the Lawyer · 2.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Before he led the nation, Abraham Lincoln walked these very grounds as a lawyer, riding the circuit. This statue commemorates that chapter of his life. It's called "Lincoln the Lawyer," sculpted by Lorado Taft and…