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A recent achievement for the Knights men's basketball team was in the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where they made the NCAA Tournament as a sixteenth seed and gave the top seeded Illinois Fighting Illini a huge scare.

* College football national championship – Centre Praying Colonels, Harvard Crimson, Illinois Fighting Illini, Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Texas A & M Aggies ( shared ).

* College football national championship – California Golden Bears, Cornell Big Red, Illinois Fighting Illini and Michigan Wolverines ( shared )

* College football national championship – Georgia Bulldogs, Illinois Fighting Illini, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Texas A & M Aggies and Yale Bulldogs ( shared )

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Category: Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball players

* College football national championship – Auburn Tigers, Army Black Knights, Illinois Fighting Illini and Texas Longhorns ( shared )

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* Illinois Fighting Illini, the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Taylor Bell of the Chicago Sun-Times noted that Howard was said to be leaning toward playing for DePaul or, because of his admiration for Thomas, for the Illinois Fighting Illini who Thomas had chosen to play for in 1989.

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In 2001, his first season at Illinois, Self coached a squad of mostly Lon Kruger recruits to a 27-8 record ( 13-3 conference record ), a share of the Big Ten title, and a final Associated Press ranking of 4th in the nation, resulting in the Fighting Illini earning a number ' 1 ' seed in the NCAA Tournament.

In Self's three seasons in Illinois, he led the Fighting Illini to two Big Ten regular-season championships, a Big Ten Tournament title, and three straight NCAA tournament appearances.

" Another explanation has it that two of the founders, Ross Freeman and Jim Barnett both attended the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, also called the Fighting Illini.

* John Groce, head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

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Chief Illiniwek's final official appearance was at an Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball game on February 21, 2007.

* The Illinois Fighting Illini's former use of Chief Illiniwek

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

The first halftime show by a marching band at a football game was done by the University of Illinois Marching Illini also in 1907 at a game against the University of Chicago.

While at the University of Illinois, Ebert worked as a reporter for the The Daily Illini and then served as its editor during his senior year while also continuing to work as a reporter for the News-Gazette of Champagne-Urbana, Illinois ( he had begun at the News-Gazette at age 15 covering Urbana High School sports ).

That same year, Ebert's first book, a history of the University of Illinois titled Illini Century: One Hundred Years of Campus Life was published by the University's press.

* An Illini Century: One Hundred Years of Campus Life ( no ISBN ) – the history of the first 100 years of the University of Illinois, edited by Ebert in 1967

' Illini Hardy ' a semi-erect prickly cultivar introduced by the University of Illinois is cane hardy in zone 5, where traditionally blackberry production has been problematic, since canes often failed to survive the winter.

Illinois Foundation Seeds Inc. was the first seed company to release a supersweet corn and it was called Illini Xtra Sweet, but widespread use of supersweet hybrids did not occur until the early 1980s.

He attended the University of Illinois, where he earned mostly " C " grades and contributed a humor column to The Daily Illini, the college newspaper, but never received a degree because he was expelled for breaking into a campus sorority house with his then-girlfriend.

Among other things, Newman had been known for coining the term " Big John " to describe the John Hancock Center and the expression " Fortress Illini " for the concrete structures and plazas at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Illinois Confederation, sometimes referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were a group of twelve to thirteen Native American tribes in the upper Mississippi River valley of North America.

*” Pride of the Illini ” ( 1928, written for University of Illinois )

The Daily Illini, commonly known as the DI, is an independent, student-run newspaper that has been published for the community of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1871.

In February 2010, The Daily Illini was awarded the General Excellence award by the Illinois Collegiate Press Association.

On March 9, 2010 The Daily Illini published a guide to salaries on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois.

IWU defeated the University of Illinois 16-0 in the Illini ’ s first-ever football game.

The Illini Indian tribes, for whom the state is named, and other tribes migrated to Southern Illinois around AD 1500.

During the season, the Bears played their home games at the University of Illinois ' Memorial Stadium in Champaign, where they went 3 – 5.

Joe McCabe played sax at this time until moving to Southern Illinois University.

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had played an integral role in the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 by being the man who was able to turn out enough voters to win Illinois for Kennedy, the first Catholic U. S. president.

The test game was played in Rockford, Illinois at the Rockford MetroCentre.

The first game played was on Wednesday, June 2, 1999 on the road against the Cook County Cheetahs of Crestwood, Illinois.

The impact of this on the Giants was minimized, since, in the eight-team National league, only the Chicago Cubs ( Illinois ), Cincinnati Reds ( Ohio ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( Missouri ), played home games in states that allowed professional sports on Sunday.

The earliest known softball game was played in Chicago, Illinois on Thanksgiving Day, 1887.

Education has played an important role in the area with Northern Illinois University located in DeKalb and Kishwaukee Community College located in Malta.

Carlinville has long been a site of Illinois history, and has played host to many presidential hopefuls via campaign stops at a time in American history when railway routes produced many visits by politicians.

Jesse W. Fell, a native of Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania, was a widely known land dealer in Central Illinois who played major role in founding many Illinois towns including Clinton, Dwight, Normal, Pontiac, and who was the driving force behind the establishment of the school that would become Illinois State University Holder was linked with Fell in many of his town founding schemes including Normal and Larchwood in Lyon County, Iowa ; the McLean County town of Holder is named in his honor.

However, when Cobden High School played for and lost the state basketball championship in 1964, this mascot became the pride of Cobden and Southern Illinois, showing the world what a small town could really do.

Denham Springs is also located on the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, a line which played a large role in the city's early development.

Born in New Orleans, Hamm spent his childhood and youth in Champaign, Illinois, where he studied bass and piano, played in the stage band at Champaign High School, and was selected to the Illinois All-State Band.

He attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, and played in stock companies for a few years before signing a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1941.

By 1912, he was playing professionally with Freddie Keppard in Storyville, and played with Buddy Petit, Kid Ory, Papa Celestin, the Eagle Band, and the Young Olympia Band, before joining the Original Creole Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois in 1917.

From 1927 to 29, Ives attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College ( now Eastern Illinois University ) in Charleston, Illinois, where he played football.

This was followed by dead air and then WGN radio ( the station designated to simulcast the alert message ) being played on almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout much of Illinois.

Colangelo was born and raised in Chicago Heights, Illinois where he played basketball and baseball for Bloom Township High School.

They primarily played against teams from Illinois and Indiana.

His dad became athletic director of Chillicothe Township High School ( now Illinois Valley Central High School ) as well as a respected football coach, and both Josh and older brother Ron played quarterback under him.