Champaign Township, Champaign County, Illinois


Champaign Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,834 and it contained 4,964 housing units.

History

Champaign Township changed its name from West Urbana Township on April 30, 1860.

Geography

Champaign is Township 19 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water. The streams of Copper Slough and Phinney Branch run through this township.
Portions of the township have been removed through annexation with the City of Champaign.

Cities and towns

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Grain elevators

Champaign elevators were operated by C.A. Dickey, Champaign Cereal Mills and Elevator in 1913; also Dryer and Burt Grain and Coal in 1913.
Savoy elevator was built along the Illinois Central—Canadian National railroad. Savoy Grain and Coal Company operated a wooden elevator, no longer standing, in 1913. Concrete silos of the present elevator are east of U.S. Route 45.
Staley′s Station elevator was built along the Illinois Central—Canadian National east–west line. It was operating in 1913, but both the station and elevator are gone.
West Urbana Depot, later Champaign. Mark Carley built a steam flouring mill, steam grain elevator and warehouse near the Illinois Central—Canadian National railroad in the mid–1850s.

Major highways

Economy

In addition to the University of Illinois, Champaign Township is also home to a Kraft Foods plant. The township's major employers include The University of Illinois, Champaign Unit #4 School District, and Kraft Foods. Numerous township residents are also employed by Parkland College, Kirby Foods, Christie Clinic, Devonshire Group LLC, Amdocs, Hobbico and Horizon Hobby, all of which are in the adjacent city of Champaign, Illinois, as well as by Carle Clinic Association and Provena Health, located in nearby Urbana, Illinois.