PEORIA, Ill. -- The NCAA's executive committee on Friday rejected an appeal by the University of Illinois to continue using its Chief Illiniwek mascot without penalty but removed Bradley from a ...

University caved under pressure from groups, sanctions by NCAA. University of Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek performs during an Illinois football game against Syracuse in Champaign, Ill., in 2006.

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 ...

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 ...