Illinois' football stadium will be known as Gies Memorial Stadium after alumnus and philanthropist Larry Gies made a $100 million donation to the school's athletic department. The school announced ...

An artist’s rendering of the interior of the new $105 million building at Gies College of Business. ©LMN Architects Less than a week after celebrating the fifth anniversary of its $150 million naming ...

The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Bob Asmussen, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Sep. 10—CHAMPAIGN — Illinois just renamed its football stadium without warning. No "head's up" or "be on ...

Larry Gies, 56, and his wife, Beth Gies, 55, outside the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois When Larry Gies came home from work to tell his wife, Beth, that he was thinking of ...

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Champaign, Ill (WAND) – When the University of Illinois football team takes the field Saturday their stadium will have a new name. Gies Memorial Stadium. Larry Gies, whose late father served in the ...

CHAMPAIGN — It took a little over an hour, but Larry Gies made his way through a sea of University of Illinois business students. Faces glittered with appreciation as he gave advice, posed for selfies ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois' football stadium will be known as Gies Memorial Stadium after alumnus and philanthropist Larry Gies made a $100 million donation to the school's athletic department.