"Two hundred fifty miles southeast of WIU’s campus, Southern Illinois University is facing very tough times, leading to a near civil war between its two largest campuses at Carbondale and Edwardsville. At the flagship Carbondale campus, more than 24,000 students attended a generation ago, in 1990; last fall, enrollment was under 15,000 and still falling. In Illinois’s leading city, enrollment at Chicago State University has fallen precipitously, seemingly asymptotically approaching zero."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=9438