History
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The indie voice of a college town
Remembering The Octopus 30 years after it became Champaign-Urbana’s alt-weekly of record.
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March Madness at Huff Hall
The yearly NCAA bracket bonanza owes its namesake partly to the facility in which it was coined, Huff Hall, which marks its 100th anniversary this year.
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Mrs. Smith and the Mob
When a Chicago mobster was ready to talk, FBI agent Elaine Corbitt Smith (LAS ’67) was ready to listen.
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Flashback: 1984
Being a student in 1984 meant midnight movies at the Co-Ed and browsing vinyl at Record Service. Let’s travel back in time for a look at life on campus in the eighties.
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The stadium’s first family
Meet the Crackels, the family who lived in the stadium for its first thirteen years.
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“Fight, Illini!”
In 1921, a Daily Illini songwriting contest helped raise funds to build Memorial Stadium. For the first time in one hundred years, the sounds of the winning song will fill the stadium again.
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Sentinels of the stadium
To the descendants of Private Dean Memmen, a casualty of World War I, Memorial Stadium has always been about more than just football.
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Bear hunting
Illinois Athletics historian Kent Brown (MEDIA ’87, AHS ’89) remembers when the Chicago Bears practiced at Memorial Stadium on the way to Super Bowl XX.
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A gem that was nearly lost
For nearly a century, Illinois scientists have protected Brownfield Woods, a treasured outdoor ecological laboratory.