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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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Sideline storyteller
From her first interview on the Illinois campus to interviewing the Bears’ quarterback, Caleb Williams, Cassie Carlson’s preparation and belief in herself have driven her success.
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Tea for two
Fifteen years ago, two college kids walked into a tea house in Prague. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is the moment that changed Dan Klein’s (Gies ‘10) and Patrick Tannous’ lives. They’ve been living loose, their company motto, ever since.
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Tools of the trade
The instruments we use to conserve Illinois’ collections are often as fascinating as the artifacts themselves.
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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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Memorial Stadium: 100 Years
Memorial Stadium holds a century full of stories—many of which happened off the field. Go behind the scenes of George Huff and Robert Zuppke’s fundraising tour, and meet Mr. and Mrs. Stadium, the real-life student couple who oversaw student fundraising.
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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.