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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..
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.
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5720 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States
+1 773-702-8068
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
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
This giant Gothic church is named for the University founder, John D
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
Those zoning laws are again to 'blame' for the total absence of any movie theaters in this section of Chicago
If you are not a student and are not on a tour, you can't enter the gigantic collection of over 4
This Henry Moore statue marks the area where Enrico Fermi and his team of scientists successfully produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
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
The Smart museum is small, but has an excellent collection, thoughtfully exhibited
A small gallery of avant-garde painting, which will appeal greatly to aficionados, less so to casual visitors