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 ...

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. -- 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 ...

URBANA, Ill. -- Nine years after it retired Chief Illiniwek under pressure from the NCAA, the University of Illinois will begin the search for a new mascot, interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said ...

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 basketball home game of the season on Wednesday, officials said.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chief Illiniwek will continue to perform at University of Illinois football and basketball games -- for now. The school's board of trustees on Thursday rebuffed an attempt to ...

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.