[hinckley buzzard]

Wow. I’m boggled that a History prof at a good school like U of C would actually posit something so absolutely wrong...

He was not at U of Chicago, he was at U of Illinois-Chicago, a second rate branch of a mediocre state system.

[ladyjane]

Actually the University of Illinois in Urbana is considered a good research university. Some of the departments are about the best in the country.