Check this landing page for updates on Illini camp including daily practice notes, player and coach interviews, visiting recruitis, and our 2016 season preview series.
Daily practice notes
Thursday, Aug. 4. The Illini held their first practice of camp on Thursday from 2:30 to approximately 4:30 on the east practice field.
Friday, Aug. 5. Illinois was back on the practice field on Friday at 2:30. Check out the notes for a breakdown by position.
Photo gallery. Photos from Illini practice on Friday, Aug. 5.
Satuday, Aug. 6. The Illini focused on individual skills and special teams before getting the usual reps in 7v7 and team.
Photo gallery: Photos from Illini practice on Saturday, Aug. 6
Monday, Aug. 8. Monday was the first day in full pads.
Thursday, Aug.11. The Illini worked on red zone offense on Thursday. News and notes.
Photo gallery: The beat goes on at Illini training camp
Saturday, Aug. 13. Illinois practiced inside Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Position previews
OrangeandBlueNews.com previews each Illini position group during camp.
OL: Returning tackles anchor offense line
RB: Illini looking for depth at running back
QB: One last shot for Wes Lunt
WR: Receiving corps by committee
TE/FB: New look offensive opportunity for TE's
DL: Defensive line is strength of the team
LB: Nickerson leads new cop of linebackers
DB: Unproven and inexperienced DB's have to step up
2016 season preview series
Dudek must overcome mental barrier on road to recover
Rocket men: Old friends from Rochester rekindling connection at Illinois
Nickesons find home away from home at Illinois
Everything old is new again for Kendrick Foster
Questions abound as Illini set to open camp
Lunt and Lovie are on the same page
Welcome to the B1G time, Dawuane Smoot
What a difference a year makes
Post practice interviews
MORE: Training camp roster | Illini depth chart
Illinois football camp is underway. All of training camp, which runs Aug. 4-20, is open to the public and free to attend.
After holding preseason training camp off campus at “Camp Rantoul” for 17 of the last 18 years, the Illini will hold their entire 2016 training camp on campus at the grass practice fields next to Memorial Stadium. The Illini are set to scrimmage in Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 13.
Free parking will be available in the northeast State Farm Center lot (enter off Kirby Ave.). Fans are asked to enter the practice area through the southeast corner of Memorial Stadium just north of Kirby Avenue, near the corner of Fourth Street and Kirby.
A concessions trailer with drinks and snacks will be on hand just south of the practice fields, where fans enter southeast of Memorial Stadium. Following each practice, Fighting Illini players will sign autographs briefly on their way off the field.
The 2016 Fighting Illini will kick off the Lovie Smith era at Illinois on Sept. 3 when Murray State comes to Memorial Stadium. The Illini will be seeking their second bowl bid in the last three years and fourth in the last seven years.
