Illini 411: Did an Illinois student pay his tuition with pennies?
A: Yes! Sort of. In the summer of 1987, incoming freshman Mike Hayes worried about how to pay for his education, until he got an oddball idea. He asked the
Illini Couple: Unexpected Gifts
For anyone who’s ever wondered how it feels to take the field at Gies Memorial Stadium before an admiring crowd, here’s a hint. Book the Colonnades Club, and the field
Planting the Seeds of Success
It’s midday at the Seed to Table summer camp in the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Food, Agriculture, Nutrition Innovation Center (JJK FAN) in East St. Louis, Ill. The kids have spent the
I’s on the World: Wat Fun!
Illini cousins Janet Vrasic, ’90 LAS, ’90 LAS, and Cathy Risberg, ’68 LAS, joined Cathy’s husband, Carl Risberg, ’67 LAS, for a cruise to the Treasured Temples of Asia. It
My Alma Mater: High Honors
Thank god for the HoHo. Thank god for that rickety, wooden house on Oregon Street, which kept me in school and gave me friends, love, education, and a great place
Par Maker
Theola Starks Olion, ’73 AHS, combined online event registration with a dating app to create Senior Golf Dating Site (seniorgolfdatingsite.com). The portal enables mature golfers to “choose a golf date
Fight the Power!
In 2013, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) suddenly and mysteriously banned Persepolis, the beloved graphic novel about author Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in authoritarian Iran. In Wake Now in the Fire
I’s on the World: A Proposal at Moher
When you’re young and in love and your name is Connelly, there’s no better place to pop the question than Ireland’s spectacular Cliffs of Moher. Just ask Patrick Connelly, ’20
I’s on the World: Holy See
Adam Delgado, ’91 LAS, and his wife, Grace, traveled to the Vatican to pay their respects to Pope Francis and to “cheer for” Pope Leo XIV. Delgado describes the trip
Book Booster
“For me, a sign of success is when people are still talking about the events, hours or days after they took place,” says Norah Piehl, MA ’99 LAS. Piehl is
