Claim: Gael Stack was born in Chicago, Illinois, and in 1970, she received a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (a public land-grant research university in Illinois).
Evidence: Stack was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Catholic school. In 1970, she received a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and in 1972, an MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, Illinois, or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana.