Billy Graham partnered with Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship many times during his life in order to bring the gospel message to college students.
One campus that he often visited was the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the home for many years of InterVarsity’s Urbana Student Missions Conference. He spoke at Urbana at least nine times: in 1948, 1957, 1961, 1964, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1984, and 1987.
Madison’s other Billy Graham connection: WNWC/Northwestern College radio