On Feb. 21, the University of Illinois closed the book on a major chapter of its history. Having performed for 81 years, Chief Illiniwek, the mascot for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...
The University of Illinois archives have ... but it's believed to have happened between 1921 and 1930. Illinois currently does not have a mascot. The school did have a de facto mascot from 1926 ...
When he was a kid, Casey Brown remembers traveling from his home in Wisconsin to the University of Illinois in Champaign to protest the then-use of its mascot ... of the Chicago American Indian ...