UChicago, Research university in Hyde Park, Chicago, US.
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, with a main campus of about 211 acres between Jackson Park and Washington Park, 11 km south of downtown. Its older buildings follow an Oxford-style Gothic plan drawn by trustee Henry Ives Cobb, grouped around six quadrangles; the central tower is modelled on Oxford's Magdalen Tower and Hutchinson Hall copies Christ Church hall.
John D. Rockefeller and the American Baptist Education Society founded this institution in 1890 after an earlier institution closed four years before. Within a few decades, it grew into a center for research in physics and social sciences.
Students move between Gothic buildings and modern research centers in small groups, often debating late into the library hours. In courtyards and on lawns, you regularly encounter seminar groups working or discussing outdoors.
Visitors can walk through open areas of the campus and explore Gothic architecture along with publicly accessible art installations. Most pathways are flat and easy to navigate, suitable for an afternoon stroll.
The Henry Moore sculpture "Nuclear Energy" marks the spot where Chicago Pile-1 went critical on 2 December 1942, beneath the west stands of Stagg Field. Enrico Fermi led the experiment; the site is now a National Historic Landmark on Ellis Avenue.
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