Your LA Beaches Illini Club was selected by the University of Illinois Alumni Association as the Outstanding Alumni Club in 2008. This is the highest award that can be awarded to a Club by the Alumni Association.
What is the major value of the Club for its members?
Your primary benefit is that you will be directly plugged in to all Illini events and Illini news taking place in or related to Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Meet old friends and make new ones as you participate in events with other Illini alums. There are sponsored Club activities year round. Annual dues are $20.00.
Our new classified section of our website provides members with an avenue to post job listings, apartment rentals, and post member activities to invite the club. This allows members an avenue to communicate and network online.
The Club does more than just social activities
As you will read below we do organize many activities that are fun, and provide opportunities for local San Diego Illini to network with one another. However, our Illini Club also contributes to the IFund each year to support our student athletes.
Tickets to Illini sporting events
Normally we can help get tickets depending on the event. We were able to secure tickets for the Rose Bowl in 2008 and in 2010 we traveled to Fresno for the Illini Football game.
Other activities that the Club sponsors
We typically sponsor a variety of events throughout the year. Here is a sample of the sorts of events our Club has organized over the past few years:
- “Gamewatches”— at these informal events you can join fellow Illini to watch basketball and football games on large screen TVs and enjoy some beverages at our two locations — Sharkeez and Busbys
- Special social events
- Mixers with other Big 10 clubs
