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Operation Blue Out from Press Row

Crystal Smith, an Illio writer and photographer, covered the Men’s Basketball victory over Michigan State on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Here’s her take on the game: Operation Blue Out A Success Hey Illini fans! I just got back from the Illinois vs. Michigan State game! If you haven’t heard, Illinois upset the 9th ranked team – [...]

Straight from SAA

I can tell you over and over why you should buy the 2012 Illio Yearbook but it’s great to hear it from someone else too. I wanted to share a post from the Student Alumni Ambassadors facebook page: “It’s one thing to have an incredible 4 years here, but it’s important to remember them too! [...]

Last Senior Picture Session

…We aren’t kidding this time. Be sure you sign up here, on our website. The final session is January 23 through February 4. You won’t want to miss your LAST chance to be in the Illio Yearbook or have your official cap and gown photo taken. It only costs $5 and appoint times are available [...]

Winter Break

Happy Holidays from all of us at the Illio! Enjoy the season. Safe travels whether you are going near or far. The Illio will be back to work a few days before the start of second semester. Until then, Happy New Year! See you in 2012! -Lauren

Deadline 3

After a few long nights in the Illio Yearbook office, I’m proud to say we completed our third major publishing deadline. We submitted 80 pages in total through our October and November deadline but for our final deadline before Winter Break, we submitted another 80 pages! Lots of designing, editing and adding in the great [...]

Good luck on final exams!

It’s that time of year again…the end of the semester, which means final exams! As an English and Communication double major, I have many final papers and group projects. I only have one exam next Thursday. Now I just need to be sure I don’t procrastinate… Good luck to all of you who have exams, [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

I’m thankful for the hardworking Illio writers, photographers and designers. The 2012 Illio would not be complete without each person on staff. A special shout out to the Executive Team: Emily Bayci, Christine Nicholson, Monica Behrmann, Hannah Johnson, Hanbo Shim and Lauren Jackson for being flexible and putting in the extra hour here and there [...]

Deadline 2

We did it! We submitted another 64 pages to our publisher. This set of pages completed our Academics section and started our Student Life Section. I’m excited about the students we interviewed and the diversity of content we included in the Student Life section so far. We featured the first ever Zombie 5k run on [...]

Only in Texas

Each year, the Illio Editor in Chief and another staff member, travel to Dallas, Texas to visit the publishing plant. I traveled with Christine, the Assistant Managing Editor for Writing, and Jane, our Balfour Sales Rep. We were fortunate to fly out of Champaign directly to Dallas, Texas. We had some time to explore Fort [...]

From the Press Box

Shannon Buckley, junior in LAS and Illio section editor, shares her view of the Illinois vs. Ohio State game: Nothing beats the view from the press box, especially at the “Stripe the Stadium” game where orange and blue were perfectly divided to form the most spirited Memorial Stadium yet. The Editor-in-Chief of the Illio, Lauren [...]