a community driven website and mobile app about Champaign-Urbana arts, culture, & history

agriculture ART architecture buildings cemeteries CULTURE ghosts history LANDMARKS legends libraries LINCOLN memorials museums PARKS people places pranks railways SCHOOLS stories sports supercomputers UNIVERISTY war

University Library & Visual Resources Center, College of Fine and Applied Arts

Funded through the University Library’s Innovation and Seed Funding Grant

Project partners to date include Muriel Scheinman, Champaign Park District, Urbana Park District, Allerton Park and Retreat Center, Urbana Free Archives, Parkland College Library, Krannert Art Museum, NCSA, Grand Prairie Museum, City of Urbana, Monticello Rail Museum

One 25% graduate hourly, one volunteer, and one independent study student

Center for Public History and Digital Humanities at Cleveland State

University

Challenges: • Sustainability • Funding

Future:• Focus more on pedagogical applications rather than general community involvement• Time the release of new tours to coincide with events in the community in order to maximize interest