Illinois Public Media News

Brown, the 2005 Sporting News National Player of the Year and part of the basketball team that went 37-2 and reached the national championship game in 2005, will join Illinois Athletic Director Mike Thomas' staff for the summer.

“I was violated, basically," she says. "I feel violated. I don’t feel like we have freedom anymore.”

31-year-old Champaign Police Officer Jerad B. Gale was arrested by State Police Tuesday, in connection with the alleged sexual assaults of two women in 2012 and 2013.

Lee and Grundy Counties in northern Illinois have been declared state disaster areas by Gov. Bruce Rauner, after possible tornadoes caused severe damage in the towns of Coal City and Sublette.

Former University of Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson is back in a Houston cancer center for tests. The 83-year-old who will be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame this fall became dehydrated last week and spent a few days at Urbana's Carle Hospital.