Chicago Sun Times (Nov. 4) -- Illinois ranks eighth nationwide in industry funding for university research — a position that has stayed constant for the past decade. Illinois industries contributed $100 million to universities statewide in fiscal year 2011, the latest data available adjusted for inflation— a 20 percent increase from fiscal 2010, which itself was a record funding year. The largest beneficiary of the private money was the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with $34.6 million in fiscal 2011, more than double the prior year.