Fall 2025: Spaces that Say Stay Awhile

Inside the issue

Spaces across campus are welcoming people, in ways they rarely have before. It's social, in some cases. It's sacred, in others. It's campus improved by design.

Relationships. Growth. Victory. ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and Coach Shaka Smart are showing college basketball a different way to win on and off the court.

The Near West Side's Concordia 27 brims with ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and community connections, plus affordable rentals, co-working spaces, health services and more.

Soccer standout turned culture coach James Nortey counsels his students to keep dreaming big - after his own journey led to a dream job back in Ghana.

A professor lost a piece of herself when the diamond fell from her engagement ring into the vast expanse of campus. Then a community started searching.

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