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Green Street flooding, 1979 (Image courtesy of the City of Champaign)
Today, Boneyard Creek is one of the most beautiful features of the Illinois campus, but for more than a century, it was a trash-filled eyesore with a drainage problem, and it flooded Campustown any time there was a heavy rain....

A: By the mid-1970s, the class sizes at Illinois were enormous, and the campus-wide Commencement ceremonies, then held at the Assembly Hall, had grown uncomfortably long. In 1976, organizers decided to shorten the ceremony by cutting the Commencement...

Brian Costello learned how to cover politics as a reporter at The Daily Illini. (Image courtesy of Brian Costello)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was all smiles, looking at the PBS cameras, checking her mic, and making final preparations for that night’s debate. “Who’s playing my husband?” she joked, as I introduced myself and shook her hand....

When you’re young and in love and your name is Connelly, there’s no better place to pop the question than Ireland’s spectacular Cliffs of Moher. Just ask Patrick Connelly, ’20 ENG (second from left), who proposed to his girlfriend, Nicole Dowling, ’...