<p>Has anyone visited the campus/currently a student there? What is the campus like? What stands out there? Is it a fun place, or is it boring in the middle of farmland?</p>
<p>I was reading on campusdirt.com that you allowed in bars at age 19. Is the drinking age 19 in Illinois?</p>
<p>" Is the drinking age 19 in Illinois?" </p>
<p>No, 21. Those under 21 who enter those bars are marked, bracelets or otherwise, and cannot be served alcohol.</p>
<p>The campus is beautiful, fun, intellectually stimulating, busy, and I can't imagine how anyone would call it boring. You're a couple hours away from Chicago or St. Louis. Academics are great, social opportunities are tremendous, and ec's are plentiful</p>
<p>I've only been here for 6 weeks or so, but it really doesn't matter at ALL that we're surrounded by cornfields. There's so many people on campus, so many things to do and places to hang out, it's not like you'd ever want to go exploring outside of campustown. I mean ideally, yeah it'd be nice to have a better location in terms of close to a larger city, (Like UW-Madison) but I wouldn't let it deter you from considering Illinois.</p>