Not For Tourists Illustrated Guide to Chicago by Not For Tourists

Author:Not For Tourists
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Not For Tourists
Published: 2015-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

GENERAL INFORMATION

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MAILING ADDRESS: EDWARD H. LEVI HALL, 5801 S ELLIS AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60637

PHONE: 773-702-1234

WEBSITE: WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU OR @UCHICAGO

ENROLLMENT: 15,000 (2014)

ENDOWMENT: $6.7 BILLION (2013)

OVERVIEW

Located amid the pleasant tree-lined streets of Hyde Park just seven miles south of downtown Chicago, the University of Chicago is a world-renowned research institution with a winning tradition in Nobel prizes. More than 80 Nobel laureates have been associated with the university as faculty, students or researchers. The university prides itself on its rigorous academic standards and top-ranked programs, while its students thrive in an environment that encourages creative exploring, taking risks, intellectual rigor, and determining the direction and focus of one’s own education.

While its business, law, and medical schools are renowned for cranking out brainy gurus with assembly line efficiency, the university also has a long alumni list filled with artists, writers, politicians, film directors, and actors. To name a few: Studs Terkel, Sara Paretsky, Carol Moseley-Braun, Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, David Auburn, Ed Asner, Saul Bellow, Katharine Graham, Philip Glass, Saul Alinsky, Paul Goodman, Mike Nichols, and Second City improv theater founders Bernard Sahlins and Paul Sills.

Established in 1890, the University of Chicago was founded and funded by John D. Rockefeller. Built on 200 acres donated by Marshall Field and designed by architect Henry Ives Cobb, the university’s English Gothic buildings of ivy-clad limestone ooze old money and intellectual achievements. Rockefeller described the university as “the best investment I ever made.” We just hope parents footing the bill for their kids’ education feel the same.

The University of Chicago operates on a trimester schedule rather than the more common two-semester academic year. Chicago has about 15,000 students, 5,000 of which are undergraduates. About 2,000 of the graduate students attend classes at the downtown riverfront campus Gleacher Center (450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr, 312-464-8787; www.gleachercenter.com), where the popular Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies holds most of its continuing education classes.

TUITION

Undergraduate tuition is inching up toward $50,000 a year, not including room and board, although the university makes an effort to graduate two-thirds of its students debt free.

SPORTS

A long time ago, the famous nickname “Monsters of The Midway” belonged to The University of Chicago’s football team (not “da Bears”), and the institution garnered football trophies right along with Nobel Prizes. The Maroons racked up seven Big Ten Football championships between 1899 and 1924, but the gridiron glory of yore faded and losing teams became the norm. The bleachers at Stagg Field, where fans once flocked to witness athletic triumphs, earned more fame as the site where Enrico Fermi and university scientists split the atom on Dec. 2, 1942. Four years later, President Robert Maynard Hutchins put in the university’s walking papers from the Big Ten and abolished the football team. Perhaps this was a step towards prioritizing scholarly pursuits over athletic achievement, however the catastrophic results of the “controlled release of nuclear energy” might be to blame. But the school hasn’t totally abandoned sports. Varsity football, reinstated in 1969, is back, albeit in a different form.

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