College of LAS units moved back into the newly renovated Lincoln Hall this summer.
July 1, 2012
Welcome Home

Lincoln Hall is home once again for most of the LAS units previously housed there.
Lincoln Hall is home once again for most of the LAS units previously housed there.

Units on the second floor of Lincoln Hall

  • LAS Office of the Dean
  • LAS Student Academic Affairs (including LAS Honors Programs and New Student Advising)
  • ATLAS

Units on the third floor of Lincoln Hall

  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Sociology

Other LAS units in newer locations

  • Department of Political Science, 420 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana
  • International Programs, 703 S. Wright St., Champaign, 3rd Floor
  • LAS Access and Achievement Program, 112 English Building
A worker removes one of the Altgeld bells
A temporary farewell to the Altgeld bells
A large crane is parked on the north side of Altgeld Hall on this sunny and mild mid-December morning. As I watch from near the Alma Mater statue, the arm of the crane that extends far above the scaffolding surrounding Altgeld’s bell...
New students forming the Block I
University of Illinois welcomes largest ever incoming class
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomed a record-breaking freshman class for the 2023-24 academic year, with 8,325 new freshmen (up from last record of 8,303 in 2021) enrolling this fall. They help boost undergraduate student enrollment to 35,467, the largest ever in university history...
Worker cleans the exterior of Altgeld Hall
Altgeld glow-up
When you’re as old as Altgeld Hall, you deserve a nice cleansing scrub. The stony skin of the building dates to as far back as 1896, after all, and a lot of history, and other gunk, has built up on the stone. Even a U of I student’s thesis from more than 50 years ago notes the coloration change....