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The crowd gets excited at last year's Pygmalion Festival. This year, the festival takes place September 27 through 29 in Champaign-Urbana.

Pygmalion Festival returns to Champaign

By Shelby Devitt | September 19, 2012

Champaign-Urbana’s Pygmalion Music Festival has been growing steadily for eight years, said festival creator Seth Fein. This year, the festival will take place Sept. 27 through 29 in various venues, both indoor and outdoor, in downtown Champaign, downtown...

Gotlund, Rachan have mixed results at NCAA regionals

By Matt Hopkinson | April 8, 2012

The NCAA women’s gymnastics regional meet wrapped up Saturday afternoon in Champaign, Ill. While this means little for the NIU gymnastics squad as a whole, it featured two members of the team, both sophomore all-arounder Kim Gotlund and senior specialist...

Ohio head coach John Groce directs his team during the first half of an NCAA tournament Midwest Regional college basketball game against North Carolina, Friday, March 23, 2012, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

U of I isn’t the destination it’s being made out to be

By Jimmy Johnson | March 26, 2012

You think the NIU men’s basketball program is a joke? Just take the 169.7-mile trip on I-39 South and I-74 East down to Champaign and you’ll discover the latest embarrassment of late in the Land of Lincoln: U of I. Pegged by many as a “top-25 job...