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• Host Your Event

  Brilliant meetings start here. With over 240,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, 4,500 hotel rooms, and the dynamic energy of a Big Ten university, Champaign-Urbana is where big ideas meet smart planning. Located just a few hours from Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, we offer a ...tour.

• Restaurant Week Contest

  Share Your Favorite Restaurant Week Dish! There were so many brilliant dishes to love during the 10th Annual Champaign-Urbana Area Restaurant Week, we know it's hard to just pick one. But if you were to get your choice to go back and have one thing again, what would it be? Share it below a...11.

• Cities of the Big Ten

  The Cities of the Big Ten are excited to welcome our new members from the West Coast, now with 17 dynamic destinations offering even more reasons to visit beyond outstanding athletic competition. We invite all B1G fans to take the time to spend a few extra days in our communities or plan sep...nbsp;

• Cream of the Crop

  CREAM OF THE CROP RECOGNITION PROGRAM The Champaign-Urbana area is known for its Midwest hospitality, and we want to recognize those in this community that provide brilliant customer service!  Have you had a great server at a restaurant? A good experience with staff at an area hotel? ...elow!

• Testimonials & Local Work

  Find out what our filmmakers had to say about working in Champaign County

• Brilliant Stories

  Looking for ideas on what to experience in the Champaign-Urbana area? Check out our blog filled with helpful ideas to make your visit Outside of Ordinary.

• Foundation Year in Review

  With strong support for the Experience Champaign-Urbana Foundation, we were able to hit major milestones in a variety of destination development initiatives to support our mission. CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS

• Paxton

  Paxton pops with small-town hospitality and a downtown powered by women-owned shops, tasty stops, and vintage digs.

• Events - Guided Tour: Campus Culture: Antiquity that Shaped

  Join us for a special guided tour centered around this university's connection
  to the timeworn artifacts in the Spurlock Museum. There are plenty of ways
  the ancient (and not so ancient) world can be reflected across our campus,
  in ways you may never have even realized. We...e

• Events - Spurlock Sunday: Lessons from Summer ‘School’

  All ages welcome
  Free!
  
  Because an education isn’t something one can finish, learning is ongoing and transcends the classroom. Many of life’s most memorable lessons occur during unscripted educational experiences, which summers provide ample of.

  Due to A....