The university is located in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana in east-central Illinois, 140 miles south of Chicago. Theaters in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts annually host ...

Three Illinois basketball players, past and present, are giving back to the Champaign-Urbana community. Illinois men’s basketball forward Ben Humrichous and recent Illini women’s basketball alumni ...

URBANA, Ill. (CBS) -- The chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is stepping down at the end of the year. Robert Jones has been at the helm for nine years.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — After around a decade of planning, a Champaign-Urbana MTD expansion project is getting some help. They’re wanting to expand the Illinois Terminal in a big way and ...

Some 11 graduates of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, with 18 winning Pulitzer Prizes. The university’s Krannert Center for the Performing Arts has four ...

The University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) opened its doors in 1868. It is one of the original 37 public land grant charter institutions established after President Lincoln signed the ...

The University of Illinois system reported a record number of enrollments in September with 97,772 students across U. of I.’s three campuses, including 59,238 students at Urbana-Champaign.

There is currently heavy police presence near Victory Park in Urbana on the intersection of S Lynn and E Green Streets.

While Champaign-Urbana actually leads the state in new privately owned housing units per 100,000 residents, U.S. census data suggests Champaign and Urbana issued fewer housing permits in recent years.

A federal complaint accuses the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign of having 42 “illegal" scholarships that “discriminate" based on sex or race of applicants.

Robert Jones, the first African-American chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will step down from his post at the end of the academic year.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert Jones, the school’s first Black chancellor, will step down at the end of the current academic year, the university announced Wednesday.