Kanye at Kaplan

Kanye West (Ye) at Kaplan Institute

TAKING NAMES

— Turns out Kanye West was pretty busy in Chicago last week. Along with meeting businessman Michael Sacks, Ye, as he likes to be called, hung out with Howard Tullman, executive director of the Kaplan Institute at IIT. The rapper toured the entrepreneurial center, discussed his idea for an Adidas-backed factory and campus in Chicago and held a brainstorming session with design students and faculty. Of course there were selfies, as documented on Tullman’s blog. The rapper described himself to students as the new embodiment of Steve Jobs, Walt Disney and other creative geniuses. After his Chicago trip, Kanye famously met one-on-one with President Trump and about 15 members of the media at the White House.