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. -- 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 ...

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 ...

URBANA — It’s been almost six years since Chief Illiniwek last danced at the University of Illinois, but students have placed an item on a campus ballot to make the ...

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.

Chief Illiniwek proponent Joe Deien, left, and opponent Lee Roberts discuss their stances before Thursday morning's University of Illinois Board of Trustees Meeting at the Illini Union in ...

Years from now, a dusty videotape of the University of Illinois' Chief Illiniwek will surface, someone will pop it in an outdated VCR, watch it and probably utter: "What were they thinking ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- On a fall day in 1926, University of Illinois student Lester Leutwiler danced onto a football field in Philadelphia at halftime of an Illini football game.