Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Established:		February 20, 1833 (Laws, 1833, p. 28)
Origin of the name of the county:
	Named after Champaign County in Ohio through the influence of emigrants from that county.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
	1826–1833	Vermilion
	1823–1826	Edgar
	1819–1823	Clark
	1816–1819	Crawford
	1815–1816	Edwards
	1812–1813	Madison
	1801–1812	St. Clair
	1790–1801	Knox, Northwest Territory
County Seat:
	1833–	Urbana
History of county governing board:
	1833–1849	County Commissioners’ Court
	1849–1860	County Court
	1860–	County Board of Supervisors
Township Government
	Adopted:	November 8, 1859
Township Names:
	Ayers	Formed from South Homer (no date).
	Brown	Formed from East Bend in September, 1869
	Champaign	Name changed from West Urbana in on April 30, 1860.
	Champaign	City of
	Colfax	Formed from Tolono (no date).
	Compromise	Formed from part of Kerr and Rantoul (no date).
	Condit	Formed from part of Newcomb on May 8, 1867.
	Crittenden	Formed from part of Philo (no date).
	Cunningham	Formed from Champaign late 1928.
	East Bend
	Harwood	Formed from Ludlow as Sheldon in September, 1869; name changed to Shuck (no date) and to Harwood February 22, 1870.
	Hensley	Formed from Champaign in September, 1866 with original designation of Grant; changed to Hensley (no date).
	Kerr	Name changed from Middlefork on April 30, 1860.
	Ludlow	Name changed from Pera in March, 1867.
	Mahomet	Formed from split of Middletown into Mahomet and Scott (no date).
	Newcomb
	Ogden	Formed from South Homer (no date).
	Pesotum	Formed from part of Sadorus (no date).
	Philo	Name changed from Hale on April 30, 1860.
	Rantoul
	Raymond	Formed from Sidney (no date).
	Sadorus
	St. Joseph
	Scott	Formed from split of Middletown into Scott and Mahomet (no date).
	Sidney
	Somer	Name changed from Pleasant Hill on April 30, 1860.
	South Homer
	Stanton	Formed from St. Joseph (no date).
	Tolono
	Urbana