Watch the NCAA Tournament and you will come across some interesting team nicknames, some of which will cause curiosity about their origin. Teams such as the Illinois Fighting Illini, for example.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A student committee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking into whether the school is ready to move on nine years after the Chief Illiniwek mascot was ...

On behalf of thousands of students, faculty and alumni at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I would like to thank the editorial board of the Emerald for its efforts to end the racial ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- His supporters want to fire the University of Illinois chancellor, his detractors want $2.5 million for being harassed protesting him and a newspaper just wants him to be nicer.

CHAMPAIGN | The University of Illinois' use of the "Fighting Illini" nickname is acceptable, but its tradition of a buckskin-clad student dancing at home sporting events is not, the NCAA declared ...

The University of Illinois will no longer play "war chant " music during sporting events, ending a tradition that stemmed from the school's former mascot Chief Illiniwek. The decision to stop using ...