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Recorded on June 11, 2026, this conversation with Chancellor Charles L. Isbell, Jr. explores the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of higher education and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. During this Q&A session, Chancellor...

Scott Gendell bought the iO Theatre with his business partner, Larry Weiner, in 2021. (Image by Lenny Gilmore)
What’s a tycoon of commercial realty doing atop the Olympus of improv comedy? We’ll find out shortly, but first let’s join Scott Gendell, ’79 MEDIA, on a tour of his unlikely kingdom—a cavernous, 31,000-square foot warehouse on Chicago’s Near North Side...

When Bruce Fouke,  Illinois professor of earth science and environmental change, first came to the Mayo Clinic to make a case for incorporating geology into medicine, its physicians had never considered consulting geologists about rock formations inside...

In 1907, the 25-year-old Virginia Woolf, then an essayist and literary critic, wrote  her first long work of fiction—a collection of stories—as a private amusement for friends. For decades, scholars regarded the collection as nothing more than a fun...