The University of Illinois ' Urbana-Champaign campus is located just 20 minutes south of Rantoul, and offers Rantoul residents all the educational, cultural, entertainment and athletic events of a Big Ten campus. Parkland offers classes within Rantoul, through the Area Learning Center Program. Teleclasses are also offered at the Regional Office of Education in Rantoul.
Students can take credit and non-credit courses in town.
For information, call 893-1240. The University of Illinois is the state's premier university. Only Harvard and Yale's libraries are larger.