In a small south suburban school district in Illinois — Dolton School District 148 — a fifth of the students met state reading requirements in 2024. The predominantly Black community has faced ...

Brady Twombly grew up playing every sport he could before sticking with basketball. He played one year of college basketball at Northern Arizona University and then he transferred to Boise State ...

Editor’s note: Follow live updates from Illinois football vs USC in Week 5. CHAMPAIGN — Nationally ranked Illinois Fighting Illini football continues the 2025 college season today against the USC ...

Illinois running back Kaden Feagin (3) is pursued by Southern California safety Bishop Fitzgerald (19) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Champaign, ...

No. 23 Illinois (4-1, 1-1 Big Ten) needed a confidence-restoring win – and the Illini got it against No. 21 USC (4-1, 2-1 Big Ten) on Saturday in Champaign. After controlling the game through ...

CHAMPAIGN — The Illinois Fighting Illini rallied to defeat the USC Trojans 34-32 after David Olano hit the game-winning 41-yard field goal in the final seconds at Gies Memorial Stadium. Quarterback ...

The last time No. 21 USC and No. 23 Illinois met it was in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day of 2008. That was when the champions of the Big Ten and Pac-10 met every year in the game. Now? Now it's a ...

The Trojans hold an 11-2 all-time series lead over the Fighting Illini, including a 6-0 record in Champaign. The last meeting between the two programs was the 2008 Rose Bowl, which USC won 49-17.

CHICAGO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has requested its Department of War to deploy 100 military troops to Illinois, the state's Governor JB Pritzker said at a ...

If a team is never as good or as bad as it looked in its last game, then Illinois shouldn’t be judged too harshly for last week’s 63-10 blowout loss at Indiana. The concern, however, is that the same ...

PROGRESSIVE PIVOT: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled a $16.6 billion city budget Thursday, framing it as a bold challenge to Trump-era tax cuts and the unchecked profits of major corporations.

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