Lincoln Trail Library System ceased to exist on June 30. Champaign, Urbana and those freeloading fuckers in Savoy are now a part of Illinois Heartland Library System. For the most part, this should not interest …
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Abe Djimde is enrolled
The final member of the Illini Seven Elevens is enrolled at the University of Illinois. I’ve unilaterally decided to call him Abe. Honest.
UPDATED: Jalen James commits to Illinois (with video)
Maybe it’s good that Jalen bruised his calf. It gave him some time to think. At the close of Bring Your Kids to Ubben Day, Chicago Hope’s Jalen James hobbled up the stairway to Bruce …
Booze tax denied!
Oops. The Champaign City Council goofed. They thought people wanted to pay more taxes, even on top of the huge state increase levied this year on spirits. However, that council is still responsive to its …
Updates from Ubben
It’s only June, but Rob is back in Ubben and has a good long video to satiate your Illini basketball needs.
Illini baseball on ESPN3.com, Friday @ 10 p.m.
The Illini open NCAA tournament play against CSU-Fullerton, tonight at ten. For old people, the game is on TV (ESPNU). http://espn.go.com/espn3/index
The irony of The Car
Part three on how Rob sees this whole mess. It’s never easy.
We don’t really care about Errol Maul
As Rob looks deeper into how we prosecute cases where someone ends up dead, he poses the idea of our having to play both the victim and the perpetrator. It’s not easy.
Dan Senn’s Prague-Rock on Kickstarter
Experimental musician Dan Senn, who earned his DMA from the U of I College of Music, is directing the week long Echofluxx festival in Prague’s Trafačka Arena. It’s free, and supported by donations on Kickstarter. …