On Feb. 14, 2008, former NIU student Steven Kazmierczak stepped onto a lecture stage during a geology class in Cole Hall and began shooting, the word "Terrorist" scrawled across his T-shirt.

Rod Blagojevich to announce that the lecture hall where five students were shot to death would be razed, Northern Illinois University President John Peters changed course and called for a ...

SPRINGFIELD -- The state is finally coming up with $8 million for the renovation of Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University, the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.