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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

Regenstein Library

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

The Renaissance Society

A small gallery of avant-garde painting, which will appeal greatly to aficionados, less so to casual visitors

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

University of Chicago Presents

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

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

DuSable Museum of African-American History

Chicago's museum of African-American history is named after the first settler of Chicago, a Haitian named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

Midway Plaisance Park

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