Memory Lane: The Rinky Dink
Joe Rank, ’69 MEDIA, MS ’73 MEDIA, happily spent many days during spring semester of his sophomore year playing golf. A rank beginner (pun intended), the advertising major from Urbana
Memory Lane: Urbanization
They found a house on Green Street once. Developers were demolishing buildings for a new high-rise when the wrecking ball revealed a century-old, two-and-half–story, wood-framed house that, over the years,
Our Space
Sweeping and intimate, long-ago and close-at-hand, institutional and personal, anecdotal and archival: the tales are here by the hundreds in the Richmond Family Welcome Gallery. The Gallery’s narrative—aggregated into faces
Memory Lane: Cold Comforts
It was a storm with chops—cyclonic winds, a prodigious payload of snow and a footprint that covered over a quarter of the nation. As it blasted through the Midwest early
Illini Replay: Frank Williams
Nearly 20 years have passed since all-time great Illini point guard Frank Williams first wore the Orange and Blue. The Peoria, Ill., native developed into one of Illinois’ top scorers
West Point of the West
Outfitted in West Point-style dress grays and a blue scoop-shaped cap, Illinois freshman Clarence Shamel stood painfully at attention alongside dozens of other fledgling cadets. It wasn’t easy. “We had our
Cancelled
Under a gray and drizzling October sky in 1918, freshman Fred H. Turner stood at the locked iron gates of Illinois Field, then located north of the Engineering Quad. He
Illini Replay: Big Ten Champions
It’s been 15 years since the Fighting Illini football team hoisted the outright Big Ten Championship trophy after a 34-28 victory over Northwestern University at Memorial Stadium on Thanksgiving Day
Memory Lane: Lost Cities of Elms
It stands on Race Street, on the very edge of campus—a survivor from a more genteel time when stately American elms formed lush, green archways over many small-town and suburban
Memory Lane: Down Under
In the early 1980s, an intrepid Illio writer, accompanied by a friend, ventured into “the bowels, the darker recesses of the Illini Union,” hoping to find out what kind of
