Moderately cool university in downstate Illinois.
Marc Andresen wrote the first version of
Mozilla there. The
NCSA had the first non-government owned
Cray supercomputer there. It was the third of fourth one ever made. Last I checked it was still in service.
Also of note is the library which is the largest something or other in the world. It spans -- underground -- most of the campus.
On a personal note: my sister graduated from there. My cousin (who is more like my brother) and my one of my other sister's currently go there. Look 'em up for the hookups if you're in town.