<p>I see that you are talking about the beauty contest called the US News “rankings”. Chicago for many years did not play the “game”. Schools like Penn and Duke played the game to manipulate their numbers in the 90s to the present. You are one naive individual who doesn’t know or appreciate the venerable history of Chicago which was highly ranked with Stanford when it was founded in 1892 about the same time Stanford was founded. Since the early 1900s, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Stanford, and Columbia have consistently been highly respected powerhouses. The natural cycle has come to fore once again.</p>