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  • Book highlights University of Illinois’ 150 years of innovation

    Feb 21, 2017 9:00 am by Craig ChamberlainCampus Life
    A Chinese diplomat served as a U. of I. commencement speaker in 1909. Within five years, dozens of Chinese students would be studying at the university. Photo courtesy the U. of I. Archives.

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    Central Illinois in 1867 was not an obvious place to plant a university that would change the world. Yet almost from the start, Illinois Industrial University – now the University of Illinois – was an “Engine of Innovation,”

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