The Illini Union is a student union at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is located just east of the intersection of Green and Wright Streets.
The Illini Union was dedicated on November 1, 1941 as the campus' home for organizations, meetings, and student programs and activities. The building was constructed in cooperation with the University of Illinois Foundation, which secured funding for the construction through a $525,820 Public Works Administration grant and a $656,000 loan which was later repaid through student fees . The Building replaced the University Hall.
Today, Illini Union amenities include a hotel, a credit union, a convenience store, information services, CITES instructional facility, quick-service restaurants, a bowling alley and arcade, student performance spaces, and office space for Registered Student Organizations, student government, and Union administration.
The Illini Union Board serves as a campus wide programming organization and as the advisory Board for the Illini Union Director.
Famous quotes containing the word union:
“Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves,—the union between themselves and the State,—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)