CHICAGO — Darrin Williams scored five points in the final 1:10 Saturday and Illinois-Chicago rallied from an eight-point second-half deficit to ...
Posted 05.25.2011
In September, 1960s radical and retired professor William Ayers was denied emeritus faculty status by the University of Illinois at Chicago for an all...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011
URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois on Thursday denied 1960s radical William Ayers emeritus faculty status after trustees Chairman Christo...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
A final round of tuition payment isn't the only expense many graduates faced before collecting their diplomas: Roughly half of Illinois' public univer...
Posted 05.25.2011
A cigarette tax increase is one source of revenue that legislators often see as win-win: either people will choose to keep smoking and pay an extra pr...
Rod Shrader | Posted 05.25.2011
It will be the Midwest, the Chicago region in particular, that will lead the nation out of the recession. The reason is the diversity of our economy.
HuffPost Eyes&Ears Local | Kate Lowry, Justin Sherwood | Posted 05.25.2011
Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit Was Richard Nixon a gay liberationist? Many would scoff at the question. But John D'Emilio...
Chicago Breaking News | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 05.25.2011
The University of Illinois has sued two architects and an engineering company for damages after construction of a new residence hall and other facilit...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011
(AP) The University of Illinois has raised tuition for freshman starting next fall by about 2.6 percent on each of its three campuses. University tru...
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
The University of Illinois at Chicago says it's closing a medical clinic geared for low-income women in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. But a community...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
The University of Illinois-Chicago has agreed to let the city use five campus venues for the Olympics if the games come to town in 2016. University t...
Frankie Martin | Posted 05.25.2011
An international stabilization force may well be what is needed in Somalia, but the tough groundwork will have to be laid first. And for this, the Somali people must be on board.
Chi-Town Daily News | Jennifer Slosar | Posted 05.25.2011
Retreating glaciers, rising sea levels that threaten coastal cities, and the extinction of species have become part of the familiar litany of horrors ...
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 05.25.2011