Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
In Champaign-Urbana the university, two hospital systems and the student-housing trade own the city: the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois holds the campus, OSF and Carle hold the medical districts, and out-of-town funds own the towers on Green Street.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 17 sources · 8 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-11-04
Can you find out who owns it?
Illinois keeps no state title register; deeds are recorded with the county, and the Champaign County Supervisor of Assessments keeps the roll. The county's free Property Tax Inquiry (run by DEVNET) gives the owner of record as named on the tax bill for every parcel, searchable by parcel number, address, township, tax district, property class and sale date and price, and exports result lists as CSV. Since 2018 it cannot be searched by an owner's name. The GIS Consortium's paid download carries parcel numbers only, and its map sits behind a disclaimer we did not accept.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Champaign County Property Tax Inquiry, champaignil.devnetwedge.com, no account). Recorder's deed-copy fees not read: champaigncountyil.gov serves a Cloudflare challenge
Bulk ownership dataNo owner file for download. The county Property Tax Inquiry returns owner (tax-bill name) and site address for whole result sets - 24,880 parcels in the Champaign City tax district and 11,122 in Urbana City for tax year 2025 - with an 'Export Search Results to CSV' button, free and unauthenticated; no values or acreage in the list. The CCGISC Annual GIS Data Download Subscription is paid and its 'Tax parcel layers only include the parcel number attribute'
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
Sites that forbid taking their data
- www.ccgisc.org (and the CCGISC web map, maps.ccgisc.org) — “Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software or image) on CCGISC's Website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only ... you may not: Modify or copy any of the materials; Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial)”
1
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus Between Champaign and Urbana; administration mailed to Illini Plaza, 1817 S Neil St, Champaign |
Institutional | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois The City's hosted 'UIUC_Owned_Parcels' layer, built from the county roll, holds 420 parcels in the taxpayer name 'BD OF TRUS OF THE U OF I', all exempt, 7,972 acres (7,883 deeded acres), mostly tax year 2023. On the 2025 roll the county's inquiry lists 327 parcels in Board of Trustees names inside the two city tax districts (136 Champaign, 191 Urbana), under variants such as 'Board of Trustees, University of Illinois' and 'U of I Community'; the separate University of Illinois Foundation holds 8 more. The University is the city's top employer, 13,934 staff (Wikipedia, citing Champaign County EDC). |
Government | —B |
| Gies Memorial Stadium 1402 S First St (roll site address 503 Gregory Dr), Champaign |
Civic | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Parcel 46-21-18-326-001 is in the name 'BD OF TRUS OF THE U OF I' on the 2025 roll (county inquiry). Wikipedia: owner and operator the University of Illinois; capacity 60,670 since 2011; opened 3 Nov 1923 at a cost of US$1.7M; renovated 1985, 2008 and 2013. |
Government | —B |
| State Farm Center (Assembly Hall until 2013) 1800 S First St (roll site address 500 Saint Mary's Rd), Champaign |
Civic | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Parcel 46-21-19-100-001 is in the name 'BD OF TRUS OF THE U OF I' (2025 roll, county inquiry). Wikipedia: owned and operated by the University; opened 2 Mar 1963 at $8.35M; 15,544 permanent seats; a $169.5M renovation, with State Farm paying $60M over 30 years for the naming rights. The naming deal is a sponsorship, not an interest in the land. |
Government | —B |
| Carle Foundation Hospital 611 W Park St, Urbana |
Institutional | The Carle Foundation Parcel 91-21-08-310-001 at 611 Park St, Urbana is in the name 'The Carle Foundation' (2025 roll, county inquiry). The Foundation holds about 168 parcels inside the two city tax districts (140 Urbana, 28 Champaign), including the Fields South Dr / Healthcare Dr campus in south-west Champaign and Lincoln Ave frontage in Urbana. Wikipedia: a 489-bed hospital 'owned by the not-for-profit (NFPO) Carle Foundation', the region's only Level 1 trauma centre and teaching hospital of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine; Carle is the No. 2 employer (6,921). |
Institution | —B |
| OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center - Urbana (formerly OSF Heart of Mary; Provena/Presence Covenant) 1400 W Park St, Urbana |
Institutional | OSF Healthcare System Parcel 91-21-07-404-010 is in the name 'OSF Healthcare System' (2025 roll, county inquiry). The inquiry's sale filters put a sale of $76.70M-$76.73M on the parcel, dated 1 Feb 2018; the same 'sale of $40M or more since 2010' filter also returns 55 other OSF parcels in Urbana and Champaign (OSF holds 57 in the two city districts), so the figure is probably a single multi-parcel transfer - no deed was read to confirm it. Wikipedia: a 210-bed non-profit hospital owned by OSF HealthCare, formerly Provena Covenant Medical Center. |
Institution | $76.7M 2018-02-01 Sale of about $76.70-76.73M recorded 1 Feb 2018 on parcel 91-21-07-404-010. Price bracketed from the county inquiry's sale-price and sale-date filters (parcel pages, which show the exact B |
| Market Place Shopping Center 2000 N Neil St, Champaign 887,071 sq ft (Wikipedia); 800,000 sq ft total GLA (BPR 10-K) |
Retail | Champaign Market Place LLC Brookfield Property REIT: 46% (2020 10-K) The mall parcels (11 in the city district) are in the name 'Champaign Market Place LLC'; Macy's holds its own store parcel (2025 roll). BPR's 2020 10-K lists the centre at '46%' BPYU ownership and records that on 27 Aug 2018 it was contributed from 100% to 51% ownership into the BPR-FF JV LLC joint venture with Brookfield Real Estate Partners F LP at a 'Total Asset Value' of $153.1M, with $113.4M of debt. The LLC-to-Brookfield link rests on the 10-K and Wikipedia (owner 'GGP'). The inquiry shows no sale of $1M or more on the main parcel since 2005. |
REIT | —B |
| Lincoln Square (Urbana-Lincoln Hotel and Lincoln Square Mall) 300 S Broadway Ave, Urbana |
Mixed use | New Lincoln Square LLC Parcel 92-21-17-212-024 at 300 Broadway Ave, Urbana is in the name 'New Lincoln Square LLC', which holds one more parcel at 121 Elm St (2025 roll, county inquiry). Wikipedia: a Tudor Revival hotel of 1923 by Joseph Royer, with a mall added in 1964 that was one of the first fully enclosed malls in Illinois; 13.9 acres; on the National Register since 2006. Who stands behind the LLC was not established. |
Private company | —B |
| Champaign City Building (City Hall) 102 N Neil St, Champaign |
Civic | City of Champaign Parcel 42-20-12-431-001 at 102 Neil St is in the name 'City of Champaign' (2025 roll, county inquiry). Wikipedia: 'The Champaign City Building serves as the City Hall', replacing the original building on the same site 'until 1937'. The City's own open layer lists 328 City-owned parcels (236 acres), the largest a 91-acre former landfill at 3616 Bloomington Rd. |
Government | —B |
| Student towers on E Green St, Campustown (212 E Green; 201-207 E Green; 308 E Green; 309 E Green) E Green St between First and Fourth Sts, Champaign |
Residential | Core Champaign Healey, LLC; Core Champaign Green, LLC; Campus Acquisitions 308 Green LLC; Campus Investors 309 LLC Each building is held by its own LLC (2025 roll, county inquiry): 212 Green St in four parcels by Core Champaign Healey, LLC; 201-207 Green St by Core Champaign Green, LLC; 308 Green St in three parcels by Campus Acquisitions 308 Green LLC; 309 Green St by Campus Investors 309 LLC. The inquiry's sale filters put a sale of about $46.9M, dated 21 Apr 2025, on 212 Green. Building names, heights and the sponsors behind each LLC were not established from a source we opened. |
Private company | $46.9M 2025-04-21 212 E Green (parcel 46-21-18-105-010): about $46.94-46.97M on 21 Apr 2025. Price bracketed from the county inquiry's sale-price and sale-date filters (parcel pages, which show the exact A |
| Student apartment blocks at 508-608 E University Ave / Park and Church Sts, Champaign 508 E University Ave, Champaign (and 5 more parcels) |
Residential | SQ Illinois - Latitude LLC Six parcels - 508 and 608 University Ave, 108 Sixth St, 509 and 514 Park St, 511 Church St - are in the name 'SQ Illinois - Latitude LLC' (2025 roll). The inquiry's sale filters put a sale of about $74.0M, dated 19 Feb 2020, on 508 University Ave, among the largest recorded sales in the two cities since 2010. The sponsor behind the LLC was not established. |
Private company | $74.0M 2020-02-19 About $74.03-74.06M on 19 Feb 2020 (parcel 46-21-07-334-016). Price bracketed from the county inquiry's sale-price and sale-date filters (parcel pages, which show the exact A |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Values cannot be read: the county inquiry gives owners and sale filters in its lists, but assessed values and exact prices sit on parcel pages that its robots.txt disallows, and the county's own site is behind Cloudflare. The figures are therefore counts and bracketed sale prices from the inquiry, as of the 3 Nov 2026 data update.
Parcels on the roll24,880 Champaign + 11,122 Urbana
Tax year 2025, tax districts '0504 - Champaign City' and '0529 - Urbana City' (county Property Tax Inquiry, data updated 3 Nov 2026).
Largest recorded sale since 2010 (two cities)about $76.7M - OSF Healthcare System, 1 Feb 2018
1400 W Park St, Urbana (Sacred Heart Medical Center) and associated parcels; bracketed from the inquiry's sale filters.
Sales of $40M or more since 2010, countywide109 parcels
Mostly OSF's 56 parcels and Campustown and Urbana student housing (SQ Illinois - Latitude, about $74.0M; Urbana Illinois Propco, about $63.0M; GDCB Champaign Propco, about $57.5M; Core Champaign Healey, about $46.9M). A further 61 parcels show $20M-$40M and 258 show $10M-$20M; a multi-parcel sale is counted once per parcel.
Market Place Shopping Center$153.1M total asset value
Value at which Brookfield Property REIT contributed the mall to the BPR-FF JV LLC joint venture on 27 Aug 2018 (BPR 2020 10-K).
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Public and non-profit institutions hold the ground that matters. The University's Board of Trustees holds about 7,970 acres county-wide and the core of both cities; the City of Champaign, its park district and Unit 4 schools follow by parcel count, and the two hospital systems, Carle and OSF, own Urbana's medical districts. The roll names whoever receives the tax bill, so a management company can stand in for the owner, and exempt land is counted by parcel, not by value.
| Name | Type | Parcels in the two city tax districts, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Mostly 'BD OF TRUS OF THE U OF I'; variants include 'Board of Trustees, University of Illinois' (10) and 'U of I Community' (7). The separate University of Illinois Foundation holds 8 more. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 327 parcels (136 Champaign, 191 Urbana); 420 parcels, 7,972 acres county-wide (2023 layer)A |
| City of Champaign The City's open 'City Owned Properties' layer is led by Public Works (171 parcels, mostly the Boneyard and Beaver Lake drainage channels), with 53 parking lots and 5 parking decks; the largest single holding is the 91-acre former landfill on Bloomington Rd. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 318 parcels; City's own layer: 328 parcels, 236 acresA |
| Champaign Park District Champaign City district only. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 170 parcelsA |
| The Carle Foundation The hospital campus on W Park St and N Lincoln Ave in Urbana and the Fields South Dr / Healthcare Dr campus in south-west Champaign. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Institution | 168 parcels (140 Urbana, 28 Champaign)A |
| Champaign Community Unit School District #4 Roll name 'Champaign Comm Unit School District #4'. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 79 parcelsA |
| Urbana Park District Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 67 parcelsA |
| OSF Healthcare System Centred on the Sacred Heart Medical Center campus on W Park St and W University Ave, Urbana; 56 of the 57 parcels carry a recorded sale of $40M or more since 2010, dated 1 Feb 2018 on the hospital parcel. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Institution | 57 parcels (51 Urbana, 6 Champaign)B |
| City of Urbana Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 56 parcelsA |
| Urbana School District 116 Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 39 parcelsA |
| Housing Authority of Champaign County In its own name (19) and through affiliates billed in its care (7): Maple Grove Development Corp and MGDC Washington, Columbia and Hayes LLCs; a separate 'Maple Grove Development Corporation I' holds 14 more. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 26 parcels incl. affiliatesA |
| Illinois Power Company / Ameren Illinois; Illinois-American Water Power-utility land is billed mostly to 'Illinois Power Company' (19), with 'Ameren Illinois Company' and 'Ameren Services' one parcel each. Railway land barely appears (Norfolk Southern 3, Norfolk & Western RR 1); the roll's property classes include '4500 - State Assessed Railroad', so operating track is valued outside this list. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Public company | 21 parcels (power); 22 parcels (water)B |
| Champaign County; State of Illinois; United States County land is billed to 'County of Champaign', 'Champaign County' and 'Champaign County Administrative Services'; the County building at 101 E Main St, Urbana is in the County's name. Parkland College holds 9 parcels and the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District 4. Counts are parcels in the owner's tax-bill name in the Champaign City (0504) and Urbana City (0529) tax districts, tax year 2025; the list gives no values or acreage. |
Government | 18 parcels (County); 10 (IDOT); 5 (USPS and USA)A |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
New homes here are built by local firms on the cities' southern and western edges; no national builder (D.R. Horton, Lennar, Pulte and the like) was found holding land on the 2025 roll in either city. Figures count parcels held in each builder's name inside the two city tax districts in 2025 - lots and unsold homes, not homes built - and no league table of starts by builder was found. Builders whose company name is a person's name are left out.
| Name | Type | Parcels held in the two cities, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Atkins Homes LLC and TAG Residential LLC, Series Atkins Construction (TAG group) Atkins Homes LLC 34 and TAG Residential, Series Atkins Construction 17. The TAG group also holds rentals (TAG Residential Series TAG Rentals, 32) and commercial land (TAG Commercial 17, TAG Warehouse 10, TAG LLC 10). |
Private company | 51 parcelsA |
| Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County 20 Champaign, 32 Urbana, under several spellings of the name - the largest non-profit house builder on the roll. |
Institution | 52 parcelsA |
| JCB Homes LLC Champaign City district. |
Private company | 17 parcelsA |
| C-U Under Construction, Inc Parcels in the builder's name, Champaign and Urbana city districts, 2025 roll. |
Private company | 10 parcelsA |
| Nyadaro Homes, LLC Urbana City district. |
Private company | 9 parcelsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The private money in Champaign-Urbana is in student housing. Most of the biggest recorded sales since 2010 are Campustown and Urbana apartment blocks bought by out-of-state funds through single-asset LLCs; a few local firms (the Green Street Realty / CRS group, the FLC entities, the MCI Propco series) hold hundreds of rental parcels between them. Retail is one Brookfield-joint-venture mall plus net-lease owners. Counts are parcels in the tax-bill name inside the two city tax districts (2025); prices are bracketed from the county inquiry's sale filters.
| Name | Type | Parcels in the two cities, 2025 / recorded sale |
|---|---|---|
| Green Street Realty and its CRS entities (CRS Single Family, CRS Downtown Holdings, CRS Residential, CRS UIUC Holdings, CRS Student; GSC single-building LLCs) 120 parcels under 'Green Street Realty' itself (possibly as billing agent), 77 under CRS Single Family, LLC - the largest single-family rental holding found - and 22 under CRS Downtown Holdings. Several CRS and GSC parcels carry sales of $10M-$20M since 2010. |
Private company | about 305 parcelsA |
| FLC entities (FLC Fairlawn Village LLC and single-building FLC LLCs; Fairlawn UIUC Fund LLC) FLC Fairlawn Village LLC alone holds 205 parcels in Urbana (Anderson St / Vine St), the biggest private parcel count on either city's roll; Fairlawn UIUC Fund LLC's 6 parcels carry sales of $20M-$40M. |
Private company | about 265 parcelsA |
| MCI Propco series (MCI Propco 1, 2, 7, 8; MCLPropco 10; MLPropco LLC) Campustown rental houses and small blocks. MCI Propco 7 and 8 parcels carry sales of $10M-$20M; MLPropco's 512 S Third St sale was $20M-$40M. |
Private company | 84 parcelsA |
| Urbana Illinois Propco LLC Lincoln Ave and Clark St, Urbana. The sale filters put a sale of about $63.0M, dated 2 Feb 2022, on 410 Lincoln Ave. |
Private company | 16 parcels; about $63.0M (2 Feb 2022)A |
| GDCB Champaign Propco, LLC (c/o Gilband Development Company) 202 and 210 S Fourth St, Champaign; a sale of about $57.5M dated 7 Aug 2024. |
Private company | 4 parcels; about $57.5M (7 Aug 2024)A |
| GRE UIRP Owner LLC (c/o GEM Realty Capital Inc) Roll addresses on S Oak St, S First St, Saint Mary's Rd and Hazelwood Dr, Champaign; billed in care of GEM Realty Capital. No sale of $1M or more since 2005 shows on its 2001 Oak St parcel. |
Private company | 12 parcelsA |
| Champaign Market Place LLC (Brookfield Property REIT joint venture) Market Place Shopping Center; see the marquee entry. VEREIT Real Estate, L.P. holds 12 net-lease parcels and Meijer Inc 10. |
REIT | 11 parcels; $153.1M asset value (2018)B |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Exact sale prices and deed dates. Prices here are bracketed to about $30,000 from the inquiry's sale-price filter and dated from its sale-date filter; the parcel pages that show the figures are disallowed by robots.txt, and no deed or PTAX-203 transfer declaration was read.
- Whether one deed covers OSF's 56 parcels that carry a $40M+ sale, and the price paid for Presence Covenant Medical Center in 2018.
- Who stands behind the single-asset LLCs on Green Street and University Ave (Core Champaign Healey / Green, Campus Acquisitions 308 Green, Campus Investors 309, SQ Illinois - Latitude, Urbana Illinois Propco, GDCB Champaign Propco, New Lincoln Square). No filing opened names their members; the names suggest Core Spaces, Campus Acquisitions and Gilband Development, but that is not established.
- Building names and heights for the Campustown towers; no list of tallest buildings in Champaign-Urbana could be opened (the Wikipedia page does not exist).
- Whether 'Green Street Realty', 'Jones Property Management' and 'CPM Management LLC' on the roll are owners or billing agents for their clients; the roll gives the tax-bill name, not the deed grantee.
- Assessed values, acreage and the highest-assessed parcel; values sit on robots-disallowed parcel pages and the county's own site is behind Cloudflare.
- The County Recorder's deed-copy fees; champaigncountyil.gov blocks automated readers.
- Who now owns the Brookfield share of Market Place after Brookfield Property REIT stopped filing in 2021; the roll still shows Champaign Market Place LLC.
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Sources
- Champaign County Property Tax Inquiry: parcel, address, sales (date and price range), township, tax-district and property-class searches; search results give year, parcel number, owner as listed on the tax bill and site address; 'Data updated: 2026-11-03' — Champaign County (DEVNET wEdge) · openA
- CCGISC Products: Champaign County Annual GIS Data Download Subscription ('Tax parcel layers only include the parcel number attribute'; login download site; Annual Digital Data License Agreement) — Champaign County GIS Consortium · openA
- CCGISC Terms of Use (Legal Terms; Use License) — Champaign County GIS Consortium · openA
- Champaign County GIS Web Maps Disclaimer ('Accept the Terms to Enter Map' - not accepted) — Champaign County GIS Consortium · registrationA
- Search the Champaign County property tax database by owner name (with links to 'Champaign County's removal of property tax search by name...' Dec 2021 and Dec 2023 reports) — CU-CitizenAccess · openA
- UIUC_Owned_Parcels hosted feature layer (420 parcels, taxpayer 'BD OF TRUS OF THE U OF I'; county roll attributes for tax years 2023-2024; last edited 29 Aug 2023) — City of Champaign GIS portal · openA
- Open_Data MapServer, layer 2 'City Owned Properties' ('Properties owned by the City of Champaign': 328 parcels with department, use and acreage) — City of Champaign · openA
- Brookfield Property REIT Inc. Form 10-K for 2020 (mall table; BPR-FF JV LLC contribution table) — Brookfield Property REIT Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Market Place Shopping Center — Wikipedia · openA
- Carle Foundation Hospital — Wikipedia · openA
- OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center - Urbana (redirected from OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center) — Wikipedia · openA
- State Farm Center — Wikipedia · openA
- Gies Memorial Stadium — Wikipedia · openA
- Urbana-Lincoln Hotel-Lincoln Square Mall (redirected from Lincoln Square Mall) — Wikipedia · openA
- Champaign, Illinois (City Building; Research Park; top employers per Champaign County EDC) — Wikipedia · openA
- Champaign County Property Tax Inquiry, advanced search by tax district, tax year 2025: '0504 - Champaign City' (24,880 parcels) and '0529 - Urbana City' (11,122 parcels); owner as listed on the tax bill — Champaign County (DEVNET wEdge) · openA
- Champaign County Property Tax Inquiry, sales search (sale date 1 Jan 2010 - 3 Nov 2026; price bands $10M-$20M, $20M-$40M, $40M+), countywide — Champaign County (DEVNET wEdge) · openA