In its latest step to confront the controversial legacy of Chief Illiniwek, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s long-retired mascot, the school has announced new efforts to make ...

I can remember the cheers of "Chief!" as the University of Illinois Marching Band performed their famed 3-in-1 maneuver and then suddenly Chief Illiniwek came bursting out from among the lines of ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- The chairman of the University of Illinois board of trustees says the school will decide this year whether to continue its use of the Chief Illiniwek mascot.

PARK RIDGE — The University of Illinois is paying $7,500 to the Chicago-area alum who made T-shirts that said "Make Illinois Great Again" on the back and had a drawing of Chief Illiniwek on the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois will drop its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men's basketball home game of the season on Wednesday, officials ...

The university in 2007 retired Chief Illiniwek — called a symbol, not a mascot, by his many champions — after the NCAA found the chief to be “hostile and abusive.” ...

URBANA, Ill. | The University of Illinois will drop its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men's home game of the season on Wednesday, officials said.

It has become widespread around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where its visage has been captured in neighborhood murals and on students’ T-shirts and face masks.

Chief Illiniwek was retired in 2007, two years after it was listed by the NCAA as one of 18 "hostile or abusive" mascots that could lead to punishment from the organization if continued. Illinois ...

Chief Illiniwek long ago was ousted from the University of Illinois, banished for being an intolerable display of hateful oppression by society’s moral arbiters. But the disagreement over his ...