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Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, first settled in 1822 when it was called Big Grove and founded in 1833 on 40 acres tendered by Col. M. W. Busey, considered the city's founder.

Urbana had a population of 38,336 at the 2020 census, with 16,075 households and 6,680 families residing in the city at that census.

Urbana has about 16,856 households according to Census QuickFacts for 2020-2024, with only about 37.3% of its housing units owner-occupied, reflecting its large student population.

Urbana is a principal city of the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, which had about 236,000 residents in 2020, and it shares the main campus of the University of Illinois with its twin city of Champaign.

Most of the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lies in Urbana; the institution opened in 1868 as Illinois Industrial University with 77 students after Champaign-Urbana was selected as the site for a new state agricultural school.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public land-grant research university and the flagship of the University of Illinois system, one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States with over 50,000 students enrolled annually.

Crystal Lake Park was listed among Urbana's notable locations in the early 1900s alongside the Champaign County courthouse, fairgrounds and Illinois Theater.

Urbana High School, at 1002 South Race Street, is the public high school serving students in grades 9 through 12 in Urbana School District 116.

Efforts were made to merge Urbana and Champaign a number of times, but each time the merger failed at the polls.