Rename UIC?

As a university system, the University of Illinois hardly is among the big boys. It has two major universities in Chicago and Champaign/Urbana and a small, glorified commuter school in Springfield. Not exactly UC, UW, SUNY. Meanwhile, when we think "The University of Illinois", we think C/U...not UIC. So why not give UIC its own identity by giving it its own name. UIC gets lost in the shuffle of the alphabet schools like UMW, UAB, UNLV, UCSD, UTEP, UMKC, UNO. The only school so named that has truly separted itself from the pack is the oldest with such a name and the one with the most prestige: UCLA. I'm suggesting renaming UIC, giving it a name that would have more distinction, taking image into consideration. I propose DuSable University, honoring Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, our city's first citizen. Such a move would not have to involve a reorganization of our state's university system. There is no reason that DSU (or whatever name it was given) could not still remain part of the U of I system. It is done this way in other states. In N. Carolina, the UNC system not only includes Chapel Hill and the others with the UNC designation; it also includes NCSU. Calif. State University have schools that use the CSU name and others (like SFSU) that do not. Personally I feel that DuSable would be a name inviting more prestige than UIC does today.>