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Nonbinding vote planned on Chief Illiniwek

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Logan Ponce performs as Chief Illiniwek during halftime of a football game against Purdue on Nov. 11, 2006. Six years after the chief's last appearance, a University of Illinois student group has put an item on a campus election ballot trying to garner support for making Chief Illiniwek the official symbol of the campus.

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It’s been six years since Chief Illiniwek last danced at the University of Illinois. But a student group has put an item on a campus election ballot trying to garner student support for making the American Indian mascot the official symbol of the campus.