UI gets $12 million in bequest from alumna

URBANA – A woman who graduated from the University of Illinois on a four-year scholarship has left it $12 million richer.

Arlys Streitmatter Conrad, the daughter of a farmer and teacher from a farm town near Peoria, graduated from the Urbana campus in 1944. She died Sept. 6, 2007.

Also on this date

• Local doctors notice uptick in recession-related illnesses
• Champaign council to consider parking-policy changes
• Economic group creates DVD showcasing area schools
• WILL to stop analog March 31; WCIA, after June 12
• Most see DACC's planned tuition increase as inevitable
• 4-year-old, 4 others in hospital after wreck in Peotone
• 3 hurt in accident on Interstate 57 west of Champaign
• Police investigating armed robbery on John Street
• Vermilion health department seeks $300,000 in credit
• Obituaries

» More