The Renaissance Society, Chicago

University of Chicago Main Campus

One of the world's great universities, the University of Chicago's Gothic campus exudes academic rigor and intellectual intensity, known to students as 'the place where fun comes to die

Nuclear Energy Statue

This Henry Moore statue marks the area where Enrico Fermi and his team of scientists successfully produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

Oriental Institute Museum

The University of Chicago Oriental Institute has one of the best collections of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern archeology in the world, which is moreover free, small, very well exhibited, and basically started by Indiana Jones

Midway Plaisance Park

Regenstein Library

If you are not a student and are not on a tour, you can't enter the gigantic collection of over 4

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

This giant Gothic church is named for the University founder, John D

Court Theatre

Excellent dramatic theater on the University campus

Smart Museum of Art

The Smart museum is small, but has an excellent collection, thoughtfully exhibited

Robie House

This fabulously impractical house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the world's most famous examples of the Midwestern 'Prairie School' of architecture, which aimed to create buildings with prominent horizontal lines evocative of the prairie landscape

Midway Park

A large, long grassy park, intended for the World's Fair, with grandiose plans of arched bridges over a canal connecting the lagoons of Washington and Jackson Parks, but which today mostly serves to give visitors a good view of the University of Chicago