Homecoming

Grammy award-winning alum J. Ivy is returning for a night of celebration at Illinois State University's homecoming. Ivy has written and performed poetry for Michael Jordan and for Beyonce’s Black is King film promo.

Retiree Barb Dallinger and university archivist April Anderson-Zorn will explain via a virtual Zoom talk that ISU didn't always have school colors — and why the institution made the change after student activism.

Colleges have had to reign in one of their biggest fall traditions because of the pandemic.Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan universities are still…