The Illini Republic is the name of a brigand group that inhabits the ruins of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. They fought for many years with the Chinks of Eureka for control over I-74 in central Illinois. From 1995 to 2003, they fought constantly with the Chinks of Eureka. In 2003, following the movement of the Quad Cities Alliance toward Eureka, and facing their own problems to the south with Vandalia and Kentucky, Illini sent an emissary to Eureka, asking for an alliance. The mission was successful, in no large part due to internal strife in Eureka.