Fraternities: Tau to Zeta

Tau Kappa Epsilon house, circa 1989

Tau Kappa Epsilon

  • Chapter name: Gamma
  • Date founded: 1912
  • Location and date of house(s): 310 E. Gregory, Champaign (2001-present; built in 1928 as chapter house of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity)
  • Former residences: 405 E. Green, Champaign (1912-1913, 1915-1916); 305 E. Green, Champaign (1913-1915, 1916-1924); 408 E. Green, Champaign (1917); 102 E. Chalmers, Champaign (1924-1943, 1944-1947); 308 E. Armory, Champaign (1946-1986); 1105 S. Fourth, Champaign (2000-2001)

 

Theta Chi house

Theta Chi

  • Chapter name: Rho
  • Date founded: 1916
  • Location and date of house(s): 1404 S. Lincoln, Urbana
  • Former residences: Chapter displaced during 2009-10 academic year, 1404 S. Lincoln, Urbana (1994-2009; built in 1928 as chapter house of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority); 916 W. Green, Urbana (1916-1918); 404 E. John, Champaign (1919-1922); 505 E. Chalmers, Champaign (1922-1943, 1946-1973); 305 E. John, Champaign (1991-1994)

 

Theta Xi house, circa 1989

Theta Xi

  • Chapter name: Alpha Beta
  • Date founded: 1922
  • Location and date of house(s): 205 E. Armory, Champaign (1927-1943, 1944-2008, 2009-present). House torn down and re-built at this location in 2009.
  • Former residences: Chapter displaced during 2008-9 academic year; 211 E. Green, Champaign (1922-1923); 212 E. Chalmers, Champaign (1923-1927)

 

Triangle house, circa 1989

Triangle

  • Chapter name: Illinois
  • Date founded: 1907
  • Location and date of house(s): 112 E. Daniel, Champaign (1912-1943, 1945-present; old chapter house demolished, new structure built at this address in 1963)
  • Former residences: 408 E. Green, Champaign (1907-1910); 809 S. Second, Champaign (1910-1912); 407 E. Daniel, Champaign (1943-1944)

 

Zeta Beta Tau house, 2008

Zeta Beta Tau

    • Chapter name: Rho
    • Date founded: 1912Location and date of house(s): 907 S. Fourth, Champaign (1924-1943, 1944-present; new structure built on property in 2004)
    • Former residences: 1012 S. Sixth, Champaign (1912-1913); 1005 S. Second, Champaign (1913-1922); 309 E. John, Champaign (1922);  309 E. Green, Champaign (1922-1923); 618 E. Green, Champaign (1923-24); 212 E. Chalmers, Champaign (1943-1944)

 

Zeta Psi house

Zeta Psi house

Zeta Psi

  • Chapter name: Alpha Epsilon
  • Date founded: 1909
  • Location and date of house(s): 803 W. Oregon, Urbana (1994-present; house built in 1907 by UI Professor Newton Wells)
  • Former residences: 33 E. Green, Champaign (1909-1913, 1915-1916); 701 E. Green, Champaign (1913-1915); 61 E. Green, Champaign (1916-1917); 401 E. John, Champaign (1917-1919); 209 E. Green, Champaign (1919-1920); 201 E. John, Champaign (1920-1943, 1945-1974); 404 S. Mathews, Urbana (1944-1945); 52 E. Armory, Champaign (1974-1978, 1987-1988); 608 E. Chalmers, No. 104, Champaign (1984-1985); 505 S. Fifth, No. 3, Champaign (1985-1986); 606 E. Stoughton, Champaign (1986-1987); 305 E. John, Champaign (1988-1992)
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