Having banned Chief Illiniwek in 2007 amid protests and in response to an NCAA edict, Illinois will select a new mascot for the university, interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson announced Monday.

URBANA, Ill. -- Nine years after it retired Chief Illiniwek under pressure from the NCAA, the University of Illinois will begin the search for a new mascot, interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said ...

After 20 years of pressure from activists who found the chief mascot offensive, the university last week decided to do away with Illiniwek and his dance after Wednesday night, when the Illinois ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) --A top University of Illinois official says a new campus committee won't be choosing a replacement for the school's former Chief Illiniwek mascot. The new Commission on ...

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, ...

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign students start voting on a new school mascot Wednesday. The two-day, non-binding vote will gauge whether to make the belted kingfisher the new mascot.

URBANA — Nine years after it retired Chief Illiniwek under pressure from the NCAA, the University of Illinois will begin the search for a new mascot, interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said Monday.

CHICAGO — Administrators at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have raised the idea of adopting a mascot to ease the continuing turmoil over Chief Illiniwek, the school’s officially ...

It became the official nickname for all of Illinois' athletic teams later that March, as aforementioned in the clip from the university's ... of the Fighting Illini mascot until it was ...

Loren Tate's column Evan Lemberger's guest commentary In the coming days — ahead of the start of another school year at the University of Illinois ... for an Illini mascot that’s gaining ...