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Excerpt from Champaign and Urbana City Directory, 1929: Containing an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Firms and Private Citizens, a Street Directory, Street and Avenue Guide, Miscellaneous Directory, Numerical Telephone Directory, Rural Route Directory, City and County Officers, Churches, Etc Urbana is also a city of parks. While the University campus may be considered one large park, Urbana has a park system of unusual attractiveness. The principal park of the system is Crystal Lake park, comprising some one hundred and ten acres of shrubs, oaks, grass and water made easily accessible by beautiful drives and walks. The clear water of the lake af fords splendid boating in the summer and skating in the winter, while its pavilion, shelter house, modern play ground for children and tourist camp attract visitors for many miles about. The other parks, while not so large, are very attractive. In Urbana nineteen churches guide the spiritual welfare of its citizens; the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Campfire Girls pro'vide recreation and training for the children, while the Association of Com merce, the Rotary Club, the Exchange Club and the various fraternal societies afford means for the practice of good-fellowship characteristic of Urbana's citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.