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2007, March 1st - Chief Illiniwek FINALLY has his last dance

Chief Illiniwek performs last dance amid continued controversy
By Craig Chamberlain, News Bureau Staff Writer
217-333-2894; cdchambe@illinois.edu
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Photo by Mark Jones
UI Sports Information
Last dance
Dan Maloney, a UI graduate student, performs at Assembly Hall Feb. 21 as Chief Illiniwek. The dance, during halftime of the last home game for the men’s basketball team, was the last performance of the Chief.
Eighty years of tradition and 17 years of controversy came to an end, or at least to a major milepost, on Feb. 21, when Chief Illiniwek danced for the final time at a UI sporting event.



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PUBLICATIONS  Inside Illinois  Vol. 26, No. 15, March 1, 2007
http://news.illinois.edu/ii/07/0301/chief.html
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