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
Memory Lane: Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
It’s a truism that the Illinois campus empties out during the summer months, but every year there are thousands of students who decide to stay put, whether it’s for a
Illini 411: What’s the weirdest thing ever left in the Illini Union’s lost-and-found?
A: Thousands of people visit the Illini Union every day, and its lost-and-found is a catalog of the human experience, ranging from the mundane (I-Cards and eyeglasses) to the baffling
Great Sports Moments: A Perfect Season
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
A Conversation with Chancellor Isbell
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.
The Impresario
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
Ingenious: Body Rocks
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
Sweet Virginia
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
Pirates’ Toolmaker
Like millions of other kids, Charlie Young, ’20 LAS, dreamed of being a big-league baseball player—and never made it past high school ball. “Fortunately, I was better at computer science.”
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
