Here s one way to get to college: buy one.
The former Urbana University in Urbana, north of Springfield, is for sale – all 115 acres and 22 buildings of it.
Buyers would get a science laboratory, nine dormitories with about 550 bedrooms, a new football and soccer field (with stadium seating and a Blue Knights logo), a theater, a dining hall, a commercial kitchen, a library, and an athletic center with natatorium, basketball court and racquetball courts.
They also get plenty of history. The sale includes Barclay Hall, built in 1853, three years after the university was founded by followers – including Johnny Appleseed – of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
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