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The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is an educational and performing arts complex located at 500 South Goodwin Street in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Herman C. Krannert, an industrialist who was the founder of Inland Container Corporation and an alumnus of the University, and his wife Ellnora Krannert made a gift of $16 million which made creation of the Center possible. Max Abramovitz, the architect of the Center, was also a UI alumnus.

The total combined seating capacity of the four venues at the Center is approximately 4,000. The main lobby features a floor made fromn teak from Thailand, which cost $1 million, and marble walls from Carrara, Italy. The building opened in 1969.