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Midway Plaisance, Chicago, IL, United States
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
This giant Gothic church is named for the University founder, John D
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
A small gallery of avant-garde painting, which will appeal greatly to aficionados, less so to casual visitors
Those zoning laws are again to 'blame' for the total absence of any movie theaters in this section of Chicago
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
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
This stunning new building brings professional, student, and community performing arts activities, creative arts studios, digital media production and gallery space under a single roof
If you are not a student and are not on a tour, you can't enter the gigantic collection of over 4
The University of Chicago Presents hosts numerous classical music performances in Hyde Park, usually featuring big-name national and international performers for relatively low prices