The Big Picture: Drop and Give Me 20!
The Fighting Illini Army ROTC Push-Up Crew proudly takes to the turf every time the home team makes a touchdown or a field goal. While the U of I offense
Illlini Beetle
Anyone visiting Keith McLean’s Orland Park, Ill., home can easily see the depths of his University of Illinois devotion. His basement is an orange-and-blue shrine, and McLean, ’88 LAS, a
I’s on the World: A Welcome Waddle
You’ll stand out in Illini Orange and Blue, especially when everyone else is in a tuxedo. That was a lesson learned by Chicago attorney Robert P. Harris, ’77 LAS, on
Educator, Artist, Activist
Your mind threatens to explode just listening to Silvia Ines Gonzalez, ’11 FAA, ’11 FAA. What exactly is she? An artist? Curator? Teacher? Community activist? Here she describes a think
Accomplished Executive
Change was in the air in 1967 when Norma Lauder, ’71 BUS, set foot on campus, light years from her Illinois hometown of Cantrall, population then (and now) under 150.
The Big Picture: Mammoth Proportions
Raising its prehistoric trunk to the sky between the Illini Union and the Natural History Building, the latest sculpture on campus recreates a likely inhabitant of Illinois long before the
Read All About It
The Daily Illini was founded in 1871 by the University’s first senior class, as an eight-page literary journal called The Student. Chock full of undergraduate essays on topics such as
Famous Front Pages
The Big Game, 1924 There he was, front and center, above the fold: Harold “Red” Grange, ready to take on the Michigan football team. The occasion was the dedication of
Kevin Finke Joins UIAA Board
“You know that kid who never stopped asking why? That was me, growing up in a small town about an hour southeast of Champaign,” says Kevin Finke,’92 MEDIA, the latest
Training Ground
The Daily Illini was the first student newspaper to become a member of the Associated Press and, for much of the 20th century, was regarded as the best college
