2012 Financial Crisis
In February 2012, The Daily Illini enlisted the help of UIUC alumni and film critic Roger Ebert to raise funds for the newspaper. The Daily Illini owes a nearly $250,000 loan on their building. The paper has struggled in recent years due to it being a free newspaper. It also prints as a 12-page broadsheet which is very costly.
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