Where is Brad Underwood? Chicago-area high school coaches lament Illinois’ weak recruiting efforts

(Michael O’Brien / Chicago Sun-Times)

This article has been attacked by the Illini fanbase on social media all day, and maybe even contributed to some passive-aggressive tweeting from Illini Basketball.

There are some hard truths in here, folks. Truths that most Illini fans who have rosy memories of Lou Henson and the 1980’s seem to have a hard time stomaching.

Those truths? The Illini are bad, and the future doesn’t look good.

Election 2019: School, park board candidate lists set

(The News-Gazette)

Know your representatives. Please. For all of our sakes.

These students rode every bus line in C-U today

For those keeping score at home, that’s 18 different lines.  I’m not sure if this is newsworthy or not but the good thing is that I’m not a journalist so it doesn’t matter.

Mayan languages survive in Champaign

(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)

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