C-U featured on The Atlantic‘s top tech cities Patrick Singer July 9, 2013 - 9:54amJanuary 27, 2022 - 10:39pm Per the University of Illinois Twitter page, Champaign-Urbana made a splash on The Atlantic‘s list of high-tech cities around the U.S. Champaign-Urbana is named a top tech city by The Atlantic! http://t.co/eWXdfRbG7G — Univ. of Illinois (@Illinois_Alma) July 9, 2013 Not shocking whatsoever, considering the advancements the U of I’s Engineering program has done for science, amongst all the other research happening in our cities.