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''Not to be confused with Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio'' Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 41,250 at the 2010 census. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. Most of the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in Urbana. ==History== The Urbana area was first settled in 1822,〔("History of the City of Urbana" )〕 when it was called "Big Grove".〔McGinty, Alice. ("The Story of Champaign-Urbana" ) Champaign Public Library〕 When the county of Champaign was organized in 1833, the county seat was located on 40 acres of land tendered by Col. M. W. Busey, considered to be the city's founder, and the name "Urbana" was adopted〔 after the hometown of State Senator Vance.〔 The creation of the new town was celebrated for the first time in July 4, 1833.〔 The first mills were founded c.1838-50, and stores began opening beginning in 1834. The town's first church was built c.1840, with the Baptist Church following in 1855, and the Methodist Church in 1856. The Presbyterian Church was founded in 1856.〔http://firstpresurbana.org/about-us/our-history/〕 The city's first school was built in 1854.〔 Urbana suffered a setback when the railroad from Chicago to Mobile, Alabama, which had been expected to pass through town, was instead laid down two miles west, where the land was flatter. The town of West Urbana grew up around the train depot built there in 1854, and in 1861 its name was changed to Champaign. The competition between the two cities provoked Urbana to tear down the ten-year-old County Courthouse and replace it with a much larger and fancier structure, to ensure that the county seat would remain in Urbana.〔 Champaign-Urbana was selected as the site for a new state agricultural school, thanks to the efforts of Clark Griggs. Illinois Industrial University, which would evolve into the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, opened in 1868 with 77 students.〔 A number of efforts to merge Urbana and Champaign have failed at the polls.〔 On October 9, 1871 a fire burned much of downtown Urbana.〔http://urbanabusiness.com/explore/history/〕 Children playing with matches started the fire.〔http://www.iafflocal1147.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=74831&page=About20Us〕 (It is unrelated to the Great Chicago Fire, though both fires occurred during severe drought and were spread by high winds.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Urbana, Illinois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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