No one is going to confuse Springfield with Ann Arbor or South Bend, but there's a sense that it might be becoming a bit of a college town.
“If it’s going to be a college town, it will be UIS driving it,” said Richard Ringeisen, chancellor at UIS.
UIS’s campus has taken on a more collegiate look in recent years, with a quad, a central colonnade, two 200-bed residence halls for freshmen and sophomores, and a new recreation and athletic center.
Ringeisen's comments were featured in an October 12, 2009 edition of the State Journal-Register.
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