It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring ...

The University of Illinois will retire its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men's home basketball game of the season on Wednesday.

My alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, faces many challenges but one even more daunting to its politically correct leadership: the choice of a new mascot.The university ...

U of I Students Rally for New Mascot University retired Indian chief mascot three years ago Published October 22, 2010 • Updated on October 22, 2010 at 5:00 pm ...

Chief Illiniwek, the former University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mascot, was banned by the NCAA in 2007 for being “hostile and abusive” toward American Indians -- but people attending ...

URBANA, Ill. (WAND) – Backers of a replacement for the former “Chief” mascot at the U of I presented their idea Thursday.

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The University of Illinois will retire its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men’s home basketball game of the season on Wednesday. The NCAA ...

(CBS) – The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana is moving forward with plans to identify a "first-ever" mascot, officials said. Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson announced Monday that she ...

The Mascot Is Fiction. The War Is Real. Why Chief Illiniwek, retired more than a decade ago, still inspires anger, pain, and pride at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

At the University of Wisconsin—Madison, a team of six to eight students embody Bucky Badger.Tryouts occur each spring, with preliminary rounds consisting of four stations: role-playing, props ...

It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring ...

In 2007, the university retired Chief Illiniwek, a fictional American Indian figure, after the NCAA deemed it “hostile and abusive.” Since then, there has been no school-sanctioned replacement ...