Enrollment this fall across the University of Illinois System grew to for the seventh straight year, increasing 3.8 percent to nearly 89,000 students. Combined enrollment at the system鈥檚 universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield grew to 88,861 from 85,597 a year ago. The system is on pace to meet a five-year goal of topping 93,600 students by fall 2021.