"Urbana-Champaign"?
I worked in that wonderful twin town for six months in '98 (Hi guys <wave>) and I always heard it referred to as "Champaign-Urbana", or "Chambana" for short.
When did it change?
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The /campus/ has been officially "Urbana-Champaign" for decades, at least. The twin towns are known as "Champaign-Urbana." Confusing, ne? But the town of Champaign (pop. ~ 65K) is twice the size and population of Urbana (pop. ~35K), and thus is traditionally named first. However, the majority of the UIUC campus resides in Urbana, so they put Urbana first in the name (at least, that's the story I was told). As evidence of this (the long standing naming convention), until just this summer, UIUC's domain name was uiuc.edu - that is, "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
"But the town of Champaign (pop. ~ 65K) is twice the size and population of Urbana (pop. ~35K), and thus is traditionally named first."
Thanks for clearing out a point for me (well, two points really). I always thought that Chambana was named in that order because on the maps Champaign's on the left and Urbana on the right... hence it reads "Champaign... Urbana". ^_^ But the population bit makes more sense.