Thursday, May 14, 2026

The Iran War is approaching the three month mark, and peace talks between the sides have stalled. Some University of Chicago undergraduates are getting a tuition break. The University announced it would cover the cost of tuition for students whose families make less than $250,000 a year starting in fall 2027. A bill backed by Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is aimed at helping Illinois residents with auto insurance rates. Plus, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene for decades. He was a fixture at local venues, recording shows religiously in the 80s, 90s and beyond. For a while, the future of Jacobs’ personal archive was uncertain. Much of it lived in his home, on shelves or in boxes, and tape quality degrades over time. But over the past few years, a team of volunteer audio archivists began converting the recordings to digital formats and releasing them to the public.