The challenge is being made by B. Charles Ames, a business administration major, and his wife, Joyce Eichhorn Ames, an art major, when they were IWU students.
Construction is dependent upon securing funding.
Plans call for the library to be located in the vicinity of Park and Empire. It will face north, providing a new gateway to the university. The library will be the location for meeting, studying, collaborating, consulting, and reflecting. Illinois Wesleyan will now have three clearly defined entrances off three major arteries, Main, Emerson, and Empire. Groundbreaking for the new library is dependent upon raising construction funds and approval by IWU's Board of Trustees.