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The Daily Illini

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini

The MTD bus drives around on campus. MTD is resuming fares during Covid-19.

CUMTD plans to resume fare enforcement while pandemic drags on

By Da Yeon Eom, Staff Writer August 4, 2021

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District will resume fare enforcement and require front door boarding on Aug. 15. Both operators and passengers riding the...

Former Illini Michelle Bartsch-Hackley dives to save the ball July 27 during the Tokyo Olympics. All eight former Illini at the Olympics have been working hard.

Illini at the Olympics: Poulter, Bartsch-Hackley advance to quarterfinals with Team USA volleyball

By Claire O'Brien, Sports Digital Content Editor August 2, 2021

Last Friday, the Tokyo Olympics kicked off. Eight former Illini are competing. Here’s how the Illini did this week. Tyson Bull (Gymnastics, Australia) Bull...

Festival goers at Lollapalooza walk between the T-Mobile and Lake Shore stages in Grant Park on Thursday. The Chicago festival took place during a surge in Covid-19 cases.

Lollapalooza returns in midst of pandemic

By Amrita Bhattacharyya, Interim Editor-in-Chief August 2, 2021

For festival-goers and artists alike, Lollapalooza was the first show for some since the pandemic began. The music festival in Grant Park, which featured...

Guard Ayo Dosunmu drives to the basket against Indiana at State Farm Center on Dec. 26. Dosunmu was selected in the 2021 NBA Draft, becoming the first Illini since 2012 to achieve the feat.

Ayo Dosunmu selected by Chicago Bulls in second round of 2021 NBA Draft

By Jackson Janes, Sports Editor July 29, 2021

After months of speculation and standout performances, the time has come: Ayo Dosunmu has been selected by his hometown  Chicago Bulls in the second round...

A group of teens walk outside of a GameStop in the early 2000s. Columnist Jane Knight proposes to bring cringe back to combat unrealistic beauty standards.

Opinion | Cringe cures modern tween anguishes

By Jane Knight, Columnist July 29, 2021

Whip out the One Direction CD and hop in my mom’s car losers, we’re going to Hot Topic. Everyone had a different style of being cringe in their...

Sean Williams, Champaign resident, carries a goose wrapped in a sheet at Beringer Commons on July 18. Friends of Geese, a Champaign-Urbana-based animal rights activist group, protects and saves these birds from deliberate killings in the area.

Local geese activists flock together for loud honkin’ protests

By Gwyn Skiles and Farrah Anderson July 28, 2021

A man wearing football cleats and gardening gloves stood holding a goose inside a gathered sheet at Beringer Commons on Sunday, July 18. Sean Williams,...

Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering students Rick Eason and Logan Power pose for a photo in front of their CubeSat satellite. The satellite will be loaded onto NASA's SpaceX Dragon cargo ship that will fly to the International Space Station.

Student-designed NASA satellite to enter space in August

By Aliza Majid, Assistant News Editor July 27, 2021

The University has delivered a CubeSat satellite to NASA’s launch service provider in Houston for the launch in August.  The satellite will be placed...

Daniel Toben sits next to the garbage he had picked up. Daniel Toben shows how little things such as picking up trash can make a huge impact.

One man’s trash is another man’s internet stardom

By Aidan Finn, Staff Writer July 24, 2021

You can’t go for too long reading the news or browsing the web without running into a reminding headline that the planet is undergoing catastrophic climate...

Teammates from the House of 'Paign hug after taking down the number one seed July 9, 2020. Several alumni from Illinois will be coming back to play for House of 'Paign.

House of ‘Paign to open The Basketball Tournament campaign in Peoria on Saturday

By Andre Thomas, Staff Writer July 23, 2021

Basketball has always ended in May or June every year since the merger of the NBA and ABA in 1976. This trend came to an end, though, when the COVID-19...

At the  U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Vice President Kamala Harris swears-in Merrick Garland as U.S. Attorney General on March 11, 2021. Garland has not released the unredacted memo since it is now unshielded.

Opinion | What’s going on at the Department of Justice?

By Eddie Ryan, Columnist July 22, 2021

With the recent charges leveled at the Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg, by a Manhattan District Attorney, the maddening earworm which...

These five rings represent the five main regions that have been brought together by the Olympic Movement. The Olympics start July 23 and will run through to August 8.

Eight Illinois alumni to attend Tokyo Olympic Games

By Jackson Janes, Sports Editor July 21, 2021

After being postponed for one year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics are set to begin Wednesday, with opening ceremonies slated...

Satire | Campus Scout | Scout travels across America: the South

Satire | Campus Scout | Scout travels across America: the South

By Campus Scout July 20, 2021

The sun beams behind Scout as the eastern road awaits. Within Scout’s 2004 Subaru Outback, “Slow Ride” briskly rings amidst escalating light. Scout’s...

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