It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring ...

In 1867, about 100 years after the Illini people left the state, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was founded ... in the school's now-discontinued mascot, Chief Illiniwek.

Students and Champaign-Urbana community members gathered at Siebel ... The referendum asked voters whether they support adopting “a mascot to represent the University for use at Illinois Athletic and ...

During a physics discussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she idly sketched ... suggested breaking from the past with a new mascot. The effort, however, hasn’t made much ...