Why the Marching Illini band won't take the field for the Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Wyoming football game on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.

Dec. 19—URBANA — For about 400 University of Illinois students, winter break will be cut short for a two-day bus ride to Florida. But the Marching Illini don't seem too upset about the long ...

Dick Cogdal, the Marching Illini’s oldest living alumnus, is surrounded by current band members and Director Barry Houser, who stopped by his house to serenade him Friday, the day after he ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Marching Illini is celebrating the birthday of a former band member who played well before their time. Richard “Dick” Cogdal turned 107-years-old yesterday. On ...

The Marching Illini’s Oct. 12 halftime show will be centered around NMDP to encourage students and fans in the stadium to join its donor database and potentially save a life. “A blood stem cell ...

High up in the sloping stands of Michigan Stadium, behind the sea of fans dressed in maize and blue, who packed into the bleachers of the 107,601 seat bowl, the ...

Paris High School’s marching band will perform with one of the country’s top collegiate marching bands when the University of Illinois helps kick off the Tigers’ football season on Paris ...

CHAMPAIGN Ill. (WCIA) — It’s National Marching Band Day, and the Marching Illini are hoping the community and University of Illinois grads will help them “March Forth” and raise more money ...

The Marching Illini headline the opening ceremony to welcome people to the 70th Farm Progress Show in Decatur on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. JOSEPH RESSLER, HERALD & REVIEW Facebook; ...