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. But the ...

ICE ACTION: As the Trump administration escalated actions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in California, Gov. JB Pritzker and other Democratic leaders denounced the ...

Charles Lee Isbell Jr., a computer scientist and the former provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the 11th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The University of Illinois is scrapping its plans to build a $285 million research and teaching facility called the Discovery Partners Institute in the South Loop on the proposed site of The 78.

University Of Texas UT police chief abruptly resigns as assistant chief takes over Shane Streepy will take over as department chief after Eve Stephens' resignation on Friday.

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.

End of cash bail in Illinois showing early signs of success in reaching 'better and fairer system' “I think we’ve come a very long way in the right direction,” Cook County Supervising Judge ...

Released in 1997, “In Whose Honor?” explores the harms of using Native mascots in sports, focusing on the University of Illinois’ Chief Illiniwek. The film highlights the experiences of Charlene ...

The school did have a de facto mascot from 1926 until 2007 in Chief Illiniwek, a Native American symbol representing the Illinois Confederation of tribes, also known as the Illini.

What is Illinois' mascot? The Illini used to have a mascot named Chief Illiniwek from 1926 through its retirement in 2007. The mascot was portayed by a member of the student body.

What is Illinois' mascot? The Illini used to have a mascot named Chief Illiniwek from 1926 through its retirement in 2007. The mascot was portayed by a member of the student body.

The Southern Illinois University medical school was hit with a federal civil rights complaint from the Department of Education for a scholarship that some say violates the Fourteenth Amendment of ...