Faith Allendorf

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

Last year, the day was hot and muggy. I was making my walk from the Six Pack to the Main Quad, clad in an all-black outfit wearing half-up-half-down pigtails. I didn’t bring an umbrella or any water because I thought I would be outside for only 30 minutes, and the quad wasn’t going to be...

Every Sunday is the same for Urbana resident Dr. Evelyn Burnett Underwood. She wakes up, puts on a matching bright-colored skirt and blazer and drives with her husband to New Will Free Baptist Church in Champaign. She stands in front of the people of her church with a smile on her face and delivers a...

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

Note: Official results for this race have not been posted yet. Stay tuned for updates. Race update: Tuesday, 11:45 p.m. Incomplete results of early voting, mail-in and election day ballots at the time of update show that Democrat Aaron Ammons is ahead with 30,419 votes. Republican Terrence Stuber ha…

The holiday season is an expected business boom for most institutions. However, some small businesses have found the holiday season challenging.

One night during this year’s Halloween weekend, a group of friends was walking the campus streets heading toward a house party when they suddenly spotted an out-of-place shopping cart. The friends approached the cart, laughing as one of them got in it. The friend in the cart was wearing an old, too-tight Spiderman costume with...

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

A few years ago, a reporter from The Washington Post accomplished a journalistic feat that not many writers have done before. In 2016, within only their first year of writing for The Post, the reporter, pen name Heliograf, wrote and published 850 articles. Heliograf was a multi-interest reporter who was interested in both sports and...