Going for the glory
The road to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships ends in Champaign this year, when top collegiate powers will vie for the sport’s highest honors at the State Farm Center on April 19 and...
Neighborhood Brewers
San Diego was the port of call and discharge papers were the order of business when Darin Riggs, ’03 ENG, put ashore in December 2012, closing out his time cruising under the ocean in...
Our Space
Sweeping and intimate, long-ago and close-at-hand, institutional and personal, anecdotal and archival: the tales are here by the hundreds in the Richmond Family Welcome Gallery. The Gallery’s narrative—aggregated into faces and voices, writing and...
Chosen
Columbine author Dave Cullen examines student reaction to Parkland Two decades ago, Dave Cullen, ’86 LAS, was one of the first outsiders to arrive at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colo., on the day of...
Record Breakers
Entering the Fall 2018 campaign with a preseason ranking of 12th in the nation—after a 2017 NCAA Sweet 16 run—the Illinois volleyball team crushed expectations all the way to the 2018 NCAA Final Four...
Class Notes Profile: Academics and Altitude
Sandra Miarecki, ’86 LAS, vividly remembers the moment she knew what she wanted to be. At age 4, while watching her family’s tiny black-and-white television, she saw astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land...
Good Deals
American country comedienne Minnie Pearl, best known for the hokey dresses and hats she wore with price tags intact, was affiliated with a chain of fried chicken restaurants bearing her name in the early...
Memory Lane: Cold Comforts
It was a storm with chops—cyclonic winds, a prodigious payload of snow and a footprint that covered over a quarter of the nation. As it blasted through the Midwest early on the morning of...
Alumni Interview: Tatyana McFadden
I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, with spina bifida. My birth mom couldn’t afford to take care of me, so I lived in an orphanage for six years without medical treatment, a wheelchair...
Illini Replay: Frank Williams
Nearly 20 years have passed since all-time great Illini point guard Frank Williams first wore the Orange and Blue. The Peoria, Ill., native developed into one of Illinois’ top scorers and winningest players, finishing...
