Champaign

Champaign, home to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has the bar scene of a classic Big Ten college town - BarFinder lists 72 venues, dominated by classic bars and sports bars with a smaller cluster of pubs, cocktail bars, breweries, and wineries. Campus-area institutions like Joe's Brewery and KAMS sit alongside newer spots like Seven Saints and the Blind Pig Brewpub. It's a scene built around campustown nightlife as much as anything else, with decades of student traditions behind it.