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Champaign , city (1990 pop. 63,502), Champaign co., E central Ill.; inc. 1860. It adjoins the city of Urbana and is a commercial and industrial center in a fertile farm area. The Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Parkland College are there. The city's economic mainstays are agriculture and the university. Founded in 1855 with the arrival of the Illinois Central RR, Champaign was first called West Urbana.

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Champaign, Illinois/USA West Urbana Adjacent to Urbana, it was renamed in 1860 after the county in Ohio which itself took the name from the nature of the countryside which was generally open fields; the root is the French champ.

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