University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign vs University of Washington

UIUC is located a few hours from Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis in east-central Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana.

Bordered by two lakes of Seattle, Cascade Range view on East, Olympic Mountain view on West, and Red square is the heart of campus. The university has been relocated twice in the past (1876 and 19^th century). The main campus lies shores of Portage and Union Bays. 
 

Campus facilities include multipurpose State Farm Center (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; the Activities & Recreation Center (ARC), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion, Spurlock Museum, 4 theatres, 24 residence halls, etc.

Over 60 fraternities and sororities
The Daily: UW Newletter
Over 100 registered student organizations
Ethnic Cultural Center
Museum of Arts and History
Graduate & Professional Student Senate
Varsity sports are a great part of campus life

One of the largest alumni networks in the USA with 470,000+ alumni. 30 Nobel laureates, 2 Turing Award winners, 1 Fields medalist, 29 Pulitzer Prizes.

John Bardeen (Nobel laureate);

Jawed Karim and Steve Chen (Co-founders of YouTube);

Jack Welch (former CEO of General Electric);

Sushanth (Indian actor)

Four Nobel laureates, eight Pulitzer prize winners. 
Bill Gates Sr., Bruce Lee, Marilynne Robinson (novelist), Mark Edward Pope (former American basketball coach), Linda Buck (biologist)