URBANA, IL (AP) – The University of Illinois’ Alma Mater sculpture will return to ... But the university sent the statue away in 2012 for cleaning and restoration work. The university will ...

After a near two-year sabbatical, the beloved Alma Mater statue is headed back to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University officials confirm the 84-year-old landmark will be ...

Alma Mater, the 84-year-old landmark statue will be returning to University of Illinois campus in April after undergoing extensive repairs for water damage and corrosion. It will be reinstalled at ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) The Alma Mater statue beloved by University of Illinois students and graduates has been back on campus almost two months but the university plans to officially mark her return ...

When the Alma Mater returns to campus, she will have returned to her ... a gesture of generously greeting her children,” according to “A guide to art at the University of Illinois” by Muriel Scheinman ...

(AP) — The famous bronze sculpture Alma Mater could return to the University of Illinois campus in Champaign ... The 85-year-old Alma Mater statue of a robed woman flanked by figures celebrating ...

URBANA (AP) — The Alma Mater sculpture that's greeted students at the University of Illinois' Urbana campus ... it with rust inhibitor and caulked the statue's joints.

For Dick Butkus a statue of himself on the campus of his alma mater is not something he ... Butkus said Friday that his career at the University of Illinois symbolized the start of the football ...

When No. 3-seeded Illinois defeated Iowa State 72-69 on Thursday to advance to the Elite Eight, a large celebration erupted on Green Street in Champaign and at Urbana’s Alma Mater statue.

Hundreds of University of Illinois students lineup up on the sidewalk behind the Alma Mater statue on the Unibersity of Illinois campus to receive the last 150 student tickets of the 1,000 that ...

University of Illinois graduates and their families ... their families wait in line to take their photograph with the Alma Mater statue in Urbana on Sunday May 13, 2012. Leslie Lopez, an MBA ...