The
University of Illinois Press (
UIP), is a major
American university press and part of the
University of Illinois system. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, plus 33 scholarly journals, and several electronic projects. Strengths include ethnic and multicultural studies, Lincoln and Illinois history, and the large and diverse series
Music in American Life. One of the books reviewed is
Richard Kimball's
Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation 1890-1940. It was then published by the University of Illinois Press. Its publication
Four Theories of the Press (see
comparing media systems) by Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm has gone through more than twenty printings.