The Center Square Some are calling out a recently passed bill in the Illinois House aimed at banning the use of native-themed ...

Who (or What) Is the Fighting Illini Mascot? Illinois had a mascot for over 80 years, Chief Illiniwek, before disbanding the ...

The Democrat-led Illinois House has advanced legislation placing a statewide ban on Native American imagery and mascots by ...

The University has not had an official mascot since the removal of Chief Illiniwek in 2007. A recent movement championing the adoption of the belted kingfisher as a mascot is gaining momentum. In ...

The University has yet to officially adopt any mascot. Since the retirement of Chief Illiniwek in 2007, the University has yet to install a replacement, a void that the King’s Guard has been aiming to ...

When he was a kid, Casey Brown remembers traveling from his home in Wisconsin to the University of Illinois in Champaign to protest the then-use of its mascot, Chief Illiniwek. Brown, a member of ...

the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana ridded itself of Chief Illiniwek in 2005 following years of protests. “It’s 2025. It’s time to get rid of these images and mascots that ...