So how did I ring up a nearly $50,000 tab? Housing. The base rate for mandatory freshman dorm housing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has grown to nearly $15,000 a year.

The University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana staffs a 24/7 Christmas carol call center in a student residence hall, sharing musical holiday joy with callers from around the world. In the movie Elf, ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering financial incentives for returning students to cancel their housing contracts less than a month before classes begin to make room for ...