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. The ...

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 ...

The University of Illinois' controversial 81-year-old Chief Illiniwek mascot performs for the last time at a basketball game Wednesday night.

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 Native ...

University of Illinois student Ellie Rebellón views co-created renderings of her prototype belted kingfisher mascot costume at the Siebel Center for Design on the university campus on April 11 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 archives. Illinois, which was founded in 1867, has history ...

Illinois currently does not have a mascot. The school did have a de facto mascot from 1926 until 2007 in Chief Illiniwek, a Native American symbol representing the Illinois Confederation of tribes ...

— A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that University students voted in support of adopting the Kingfisher as the University’s mascot. The referendum asked voters whether they ...

What is Illinois' mascot? The Illini used to have a mascot named Chief Illiniwek from 1926 through its retirement in 2007. The mascot was portayed by a member of the student body.