The early years
Its beginnings were modest. When Illinois Industrial University opened its doors on March 2, 1868, the campus—if one could call it that—occupied a muddy pasture in the prairie town of
Memory Lane: Dorm life at the University of Illinois
Today known as Clark, Lundgren and Barton Halls, Fourth Street Residence Halls became the first all-male dormitories on the Illinois campus when they opened in 1941. Prior to their construction,
Memory Lane: building blocks
Karen Keuss, ’69 ACES, likes to tell her friends that she appeared in Playboy. Indeed, Keuss does appear in the magazine’s September 1968 issue—in a photo accompanying the annual Playboy
Memory Lane: Strawberry Fields … forever
It all began in Middle Earth, not too far from where the Beckman Institute and the Coordinated Science Laboratory now stand on the engineering side of the University of Illinois
Memory Lane: A history of fashion on campus
1920s The Roaring Twenties rang loud and clear at Illinois. Women swapped more conservative attire for tubular dresses and luxurious fur coats, topped off with bobbed hair or the signature
Memory Lane: A look back at Illinois residence halls
At the end of the school year each May, thousands of students move out of their dorms, as they have done for the past century. The University opened its first
Now Hear This: Alumni’s Greatest Hits
“When I first came to UIUC in 1969, there was a local group that played all the little local joints — bars, pizza joints, etc. We all thought they were
Memory Lane: Registering for classes in a pre-internet era
“I have an 8 a.m. English; does anybody have a 9 a.m.?” Before the days of point, click and done, registering for classes at the University of Illinois went something
Illinois Homecoming
There would never be another Homecoming game like it. On the 80-degree afternoon of Oct. 18, 1924, some 67,000 raucous fans, jammed into a newly dedicated Memorial Stadium, waited in
In The Time Of PLATO
They came as inquisitive children. They left as virtuosos, versed in a computer environment decades ahead of its time. Such were the days of PLATO, a networked teaching system launched
