Great school for engineering, certainly strong in electrical engineering and food science/ chemical engineering.
Campus is very spread out. If you don't drive around (few do due to the lack of parking, surprisingly), you usually will jog from point to point or rollerblade, bike or try to keep classes close together. Like most of the Midwest schools, there's plenty of grass and few trees... but that's okay, you don't expect anything other than fields of corn when you come to Illinois, right? Not forests.
Students and staff are generally friendly to visitors, but few people like the very cold, very snowy/icy winters.
*edit: As I was asked: I was only a visitor here, not a student.