CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) -- Thousands of University of Illinois families descended on campus Wednesday as students started to move into their dorms for the upcoming school year.

More than 6,000 students have moved into their new rooms so far; 250 of them will be placed in temporary housing.

“Temporary housing means students are paying half what they would normally pay,” said University Housing Marketing Associate Director Christ Axtman-Barker. “There are more students in those rooms because they are temporarily converted study lounges.”

Four to six people will live in each makeshift dorm room, previously study lounges, for the foreseeable future. The rooms will have all the same furniture as a normal dorm room: bed, desk and dresser.

Illinois Housing said there is a plan in place to asse

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