CITY

Official Website:
http://www.city.urbana.il.us/

Population:
36395 (2000 census)

County:
Champaign County

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1867

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ward Churchill	Activist	2-Oct-1947		Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann
Roger Ebert	Critic	18-Jun-1942	4-Apr-2013	Siskel and Ebert
Jennie Garth	Actor	3-Apr-1972		Kelly on Beverly Hills 90210
Robert W. Holley	Scientist	28-Jan-1922	11-Feb-1993	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Andrew E. Lange	Astronomer	23-Jul-1957	22-Jan-2010	Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael S. Hart	Curator	8-Mar-1947	6-Sep-2011	Founder of Project Gutenberg
Robert W. Johannsen	Historian	22-Aug-1925	16-Aug-2011	Stephen A. Douglas
Paul C. Lauterbur	Scientist	6-May-1929	27-Mar-2007	Magnetic resonance imaging
Revilo P. Oliver	Activist	7-Jul-1908	10-Aug-1994	Founding member, John Birch Society
Douglas Woolf	Novelist	23-Mar-1922	18-Jan-1992	Fade Out

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