Filmed on Friday, June 16 2023, I drive around the campus of Eastern Illinois University to see what's going on. It's summer break, so not very much.
Eastern Illinois Normal School was established by the Illinois State Legislature in 1895 "to train teachers for the schools of East Central Illinois." A 40-acre campus was acquired in Charleston, IL and the first building was commissioned. When the school began classes in 1899, there were 125 students and an 18-member faculty.
The first building was finished in 1899 and is called Old Main. Built of Indiana limestone in a heavy Gothic revival style with turrets, towers, and battlements, its distinctive outline is the official symbol of the school. Old Main is one of "Altgeld's castles", five buildings built in the 1890s at the major Illinois state colleges.
Through the twentieth century, the school changed its name several times in order to reflect its transition from a teachers college into a multi-purpose institution that could be of wider service to Illinois. Thus, Eastern Illinois State Normal School became Eastern Illinois State Teachers College in 1921, which then became Eastern Illinois State College in 1947. In 1957, the Illinois General Assembly changed the name of the institution to Eastern Illinois University.
Eastern Illinois University has roughly 8,600 students. The university estimates its average cost-of-attendance to be approximately $24,640 per academic year.
Eastern is divided into four colleges: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Lumpkin College of Business and Technology, College of Education, and the College of Health and Human Services.
Other academic divisions include The Graduate School, Sandra and Jack Pine Honors College, and the School of Extended Learning.
Famous alumni include actor John Malkovich and founder of Jimmy John's Sandwiches Jimmy John Liautaud.
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