University of Illinois Chicago

A body recovered last week along Lake Michigan in suburban Wilmette has been identified as a missing University of Illinois Chicago graduate student who was last seen in late April, according to a social media post by family. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the body of Daniel Sotelo, 26, was found Sunday, May 22. The cause and manner…

Oak Park-native Ashleen Bracey is ecstatic to be a first-time head coach minutes from where she grew up, and she’s prepared to work tirelessly to lead the Flames to championships. NBC 5 Sports’ Mike Berman reports.

Spring sports are well under way for the University of Illinois at Chicago, but those athletes will not be able to compete for a conference title or an NCAA tournament bid after the Horizon League upheld a bylawn that prevented the Flames from competing in the postseason.

COVID-19 vaccinations will be required for faculty and staff members at all three University of Illinois campuses before the beginning of the fall semester, the university system’s president announced in an email Wednesday.

Students at the University of Illinois’ three campuses will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine upon returning in-person for the fall semester, the university’s president announced in a systemwide email Monday.

Pharmacy students from the University of Illinois-Chicago have designed a schedule to help Lollapalooza attendees get fully vaccinated in time for the musical extravaganza in Grant Park, which runs July 29 through Aug. 1.

The University of Illinois Chicago will remove the name of former Chief Justice John Marshall from its law school, citing Marshall’s “role as a slave trader and slave owner,” the school announced this weekend. The John Marshall Law School will officially change its name to the UIC School of Law after receiving approval from the U of I’s board...

The University of Illinois System announced Thursday that three state universities will not require students to submit standardized test scores for admission applications.

Jimmy Collins, who coached Illinois-Chicago to the NCAA tournament three times in 14 seasons, has died

A PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago, who works at the University of Notre Dame, was charged with murder Saturday in the death of her ex-boyfriend in Washington, D.C., according to police and court documents.

The University of Illinois Chicago has received a nearly $900,000 federal grant to help study the support rape victims receive and the outcomes of their recovery

The University of Illinois at Chicago is enrolling up to 1,000 people in a national clinical trial starting Monday of a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty reports.

Some faculty members with the University of Illinois at Chicago say they believe plans to return to campus are unsafe, claiming the University is unprepared. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

While professional baseball teams are in Arizona and Florida beginning their preparations for the 2020 season, the collegiate baseball season got underway over the weekend, with over 100 teams throwing out the first pitches of the new campaign. Despite all the excitement surrounding the opening weekend, there wasn’t a lot to celebrate for the area’s crop of Division I teams….

New videos released Wednesday shows the chilling moments leading up to the murder of 19-year-old UIC student Ruth George. The videos, released by police at the University of Illinois-Chicago, shows the chain of events that ultimately led to George’s death inside of a campus parking garage on the morning of Nov. 23. According to authorities, George was sexually assaulted and…

Chilling surveillance video shows the moments before a man sexually assaulted and killed a UIC student. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio has the story.

A man accused of murdering a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student in a campus parking garage allegedly killed her because she ignored his catcalls.

The man charged with murder in connection with the death of a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

A judge on Tuesday ordered the man charged with murder in connection with the death of a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student to be held without bail.

A man is facing first degree murder charges in connection with the death of 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student Ruth George, university police say.