Fireplaces help give UI alumni a place to call home
URBANA â The Alice Campbell Alumni Center may just be âthe most beautiful building on (the University of Illinois) campus,â as Bob Campbell would tell UI Alumni Association President Jennifer Dillavou, but architectural beauty wasnât the only goal when the building was constructed in 2011. It was meant to be a home for alumni, Dillavou said. For all of its opulence, the facility was meant to feel like just that: a home. And Campbell, who donated $5 million to name the building after his wife, made sure of it. âHe wielded a very heavy hand, but a very loving hand, in s...
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