UI names Chicago campus chancellor with ties to Urbana

CHICAGO – University of Illinois trustees today approved a number of top appointments, including a new chancellor for the Chicago campus who has strong Urbana ties.

Paula Meares, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan since 1993, will assume the chancellor's job Jan. 15 at a salary of $375,000 a year. Before that she was a professor and dean of the School of Social Work at the UI’s Urbana-Champaign campus.

Also on this date

• Urbana businessman convicted of sexual abuse
• Tight budget puts limits on raises for UI faculty, staff
• Man's upper lip bitten off in Penfield bar fight
• UI's Brilliant Futures fund campaign passes halfway mark
• Urbana teen taken to hospital after trying to put out blaze
• Urbana school board seeks volunteers for facilities panel
• Rantoul resident fleeing police dies in crash
• Catholic Heart Workcamp 'changes kids' hearts'
• Thomasboro man in critical condition after crashing SUV
• Obituaries

» More