U. of I. clout panel to issue report Thursday

CHAMPAIGN -- The commission examining the influence of politics on admissions at the University of Illinois plans to release its report Thursday afternoon.

Ted Chung serves as counsel for the Illinois Admissions Review Commission. He says the commission will meet for the last time at 3:30 Thursday afternoon in Chicago and issue its report.

Gov. Pat Quinn created the commission this summer after news reports revealed the university kept a list of politically connected applicants to its Urbana-Champaign campus and admitted some members over others who were better qualified.

Commission members voted last week to include in their report a recommendation that Quinn ask all of the university's trustees to resign. Two already have.