Went to Northern Illinois University for my undergrad in Operations Management degree.
Chose it because it was a good business school. Also because it was close enough to home that I could get back in a few hours, but far enough away that I didn't have to worry about family popping in all the time.
One other reason I chose my college was that none of my friends were going there. Don't get me wrong, I loved all my friends, and still speak with most of them today, but I wanted to force myself to go out and socialize/make new friends to build my social skills, and I knew that if I had friends at the college I went to, that I would mostly hang around the same group of people.
Regardless of where you choose, make sure you choose the college based off of what YOU want, not anyone else. I know several people that chose their college because their GF/BF at the time was going there. All of them are broken up now, and some of them dropped out because they couldn't deal with it.