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Urbana (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Champaign co., O.; on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Erie, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Chicago railroads; 40 miles W. by N. of Columbus. Here are Urbana University (Swedenborgian), a public library, convent, high school, Children's Home, electric lights, waterworks, National banks , and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. The city has an egg-case factory, broom factories, tannery, woolen mills , railroad car shops, straw-board works, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,739; (1920) 7,621 .