EIU has its upsides and downsides. The tech areas are no different. I came from UIUC and a generous budget to EIU where the budget is tiny and shrinking. But I've seen that UIUC is still on CS6 and there are no announcements about moving to CC. Their departmental CS6 licenses apparently expire in July 2014, so maybe they'll move then.

The big bonus for me working at EIU is that it's 2 miles from home. Wifey has been working there since 2002, so I had 11 years of 110 miles a day running back and forth to UIUC. Now it's 5 minutes or so and we take one car. Huge benefit right there. Really good people at EIU as well.