This building opened in 1908 as the University YMCA. The university leased
the building in 1918 with the basement as a makeshift student center and
renamed it Illini Hall. After the Illinois Union opened in 1941, the building
housed a number of different university organizations, including The Daily
Illini student newspaper, the U of I Police Training Institute, and the
Department of Statistics. The building was demolished in 2022 to provide space
for a new data sciences center.