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Urbana

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Urbana (ûrbăn`ə).

1 City (1990 pop. 36,344), seat of Champaign co., E central Ill., adjoining Champaign Champaign (shămpān`), city (1990 pop. 63,502), Champaign co., E central Ill.; inc. 1860.
..... Click the link for more information. ; inc. 1833. With Champaign, its twin city, Urbana is a trade, medical, and educational center in a fertile farm area. Concrete, fabricted metal parts, and transportation equipment are manufactured. Urbana is best known as a seat of the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A tablet in the county courthouse commemorates a speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1854.

2 City (1990 pop. 11,353), seat of Champaign co., W central Ohio, in a farm and livestock area; inc. 1814. It has hatcheries and plants that make a variety of manufactures. During the War of 1812 the city was an outfitting point for the Great Lakes area. Urbana College is there. Nearby are the Ohio Caverns.
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The road selected was a continuation of the Via Sistina; then by cutting off the right angle of the street in which stands Santa Maria Maggiore and proceeding by the Via Urbana and San Pietro in Vincoli, the travellers would find themselves directly opposite the Colosseum.
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