Krannert Center For The Performing Arts
In 1964, Herman and Ellnora Krannert announced the plans for Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois in Urbana. The Center is a known world-wide for first class venues, including the Foellinger Great Hall, one of the most acoustically perfected performance spaces in the world, and it is also used as a laboratory space, housing classes, offices, and student productions for the University of Illinois Theatre Department, the School of Music, and the Dance Department.
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