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The 2003 Illinois men’s tennis team finished 32-0 and won the program’s first national championship. (Image by Tom Schaefges/U. of I. Athletics)
Northern schools—Illinois fits that category—are not supposed to be good at tennis. Climate is the biggest issue: It’s hard to practice your serve and volley with a foot of snow on the ground. And because of said weather conditions, most top prospects...

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...