Two houses, unalike in dignity...

I'll lead off today with real-estate notices about two houses just hitting the market. In Kenilworth, the house featured at the end of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles can be yours for about $2.6 million. If you'd prefer something with a bit more mystique, the Webster Ave. building where Henry Darger lived for 40 years, now a single-family house, will also soon hit the market for $2.6 million. (That house is less than 300 meters from where my chorus rehearses.)

In other news:

• Tina Nguyen warns about the far-right anti-Semitism infecting Congress, via the usual rogue's gallery.
• Josh Marshall offers more thoughts about the ongoing campus protests, and speculates how the Columbia University demonstrators lost the plot.
• XPOTUS-administration former deputy Education undersecretary Daniel Currell explains the apocalypse in college admissions this year.
• The UK has become the first country to ban default passwords for IoT devices, which is long overdue.

Finally, Industry Ales, the new brewery-taproom at 230 S. Wabash Ave., hopes it survives. So do I. But I'll make sure to get it on the Brews & Choos reviews list very soon.