Champaign, Illinois

Champaign, Illinois
City
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Coordinates: 40°6′59″N 88°14′37″W / 40.11639°N 88.24361°W / 40.11639; -88.24361
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Champaign
Founded	1855 (West Urbana)
Incorporated	1860
Chartered	1866
Named for	Champaign County, Ohio, U.S.
Government
• Type	Council–manager
• City manager	Dorothy Ann David
• Mayor	Deborah Frank Feinen
Area [1]
• City	23.14 sq mi (59.9 km2)
• Land	22.99 sq mi (59.5 km2)
• Water	0.15 sq mi (0.4 km2)
Elevation	764 ft (233 m)
Population  (2020)
• City	88,302
• Estimate  (2022)	89,241
• Density	3,840.89/sq mi (1,482.98/km2)
• Urban	145,361
• Metro	236,072
Demonym	Champaignian
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP Codes	61820–61822, 61824–61826
Area codes	217, 447
FIPS code	17-12385
GNIS feature ID	2393796[2]
Website	champaignil.gov

Champaign (/ˌʃæmˈpeɪn/ sham-PAYN) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in the state outside the Chicago metropolitan area.^[3] It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, which had 236,000 residents in 2020.

Champaign shares the main campus of the University of Illinois with its twin city of Urbana, and is also home to Parkland College, which gives the city a large student population during the academic year.^[4] Due to the university and a number of technology startup companies, it is often referred to as a hub of the Illinois Silicon Prairie. Champaign houses offices for the Fortune 500 companies Abbott, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Caterpillar, John Deere, Dow Chemical Company, IBM, and State Farm. Champaign also serves as the headquarters for several companies, including Jimmy John's.