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University Of Illinois Plans New Cultural Center

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The University of Illinois has committed nearly $5 million to build a new African-American Cultural Center at its Champaign-Urbana campus. Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson talked about the project in an end-of-semester message. The cultural center has been using temporary quarters since its original home had to close for safety reasons last year. The new Bruce D. Nesbitt African-American Cultural Center is scheduled to open by 2018. A site selection committee is evaluating possible locations and will make a recommendation to the chancellor's capital review committee. About half of the money will come from student fees and half from the university. The plan is to build a new center almost double the current center's size with a larger multipurpose room and space for student groups.

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