As the largest city in the Midwest and the third largest in the country, Chicago offers abundant opportunities for students, including the Field Museum, Steppenwolf Theater and the Art Institute.

DePaul University is located in a culturally and academically rich urban environment. Founded by the Vincentian Order of Priests in 1898, DePaul is the second-largest Catholic university in the nation and has a diverse student body enrolled on five campuses. DePaul's location in Chicago - a world class center for business, finance, government, law and culture - and its partnership with the city provide students with exceptional career-related job experiences, internships, mentorships, services and cultural opportunitiesThe University has six campuses: the Loop campus downtown, the Lincoln Park campus and four suburban campuses. The downtown campus is a few blocks from Orchestra Hall, Grant Park and Lake Michigan. At the Lincoln Park campus, the variety of stores, theaters, restaurants and music clubs reflect the broad spectrum of the neighborhood.

The Illinois Institute of Technology is one mile west of Lake Michigan and a block from Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. Convenient to campus are lakefront beaches, the zoo and Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears. IIT is also accessible to the rest of Chicago via two major expressways, bus and elevated rail lines.

The Loyola University Chicago Lake Superior Campus is located eight miles norh of the city's center in Rogers Park. Loyola's Water Tower campus is on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile", a fashionable area on the near north side, near major corporate and financial institutions and a vibrant educational center.

Roosevelt University's Chicago Campus is also conveniently located on Michigan Avenue. The Schaumburg Campus is 30 miles northwest of downtown near O'Hare International Airport and numerous corporate headquarters. Since 1947, the home of Roosevelt's Chicago Campus has been the famous Auditorium Building overlooking Grant Park and Lake Michigan. The University has restored to their original splendor various areas of this National Historic Landmark building. The Schaumburg Campus was established in 1978 and has become the largest and most comprehensive university in the northwest suburbs.

In Hyde Park, the University of Chicago's dramatic Gothic buildings and tree-lined quads occupy a 200-acre campus which was designated a botanical garden with landmarks such as Rockefeller Chapel and Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. In addition to the stately stone architecture that distinguishes Chicago's campus, newer buildings designed by such architects as Eero Saarinen and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe contribute significantly to the environment. Campus facilities provide academic, cultural, medical, and administrative resources to students, and include the Oriental Institute Museum, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the Court Theatre, the University of Chicago Hospitals, the Department of Ecology and Evolution's rooftop greenhouse, and one of the most up-to-date biology teaching and medical facilities of its kind, the Biological Sciences Learning Center.

A number of colleges and universities abound in the metropolitan area in all directions. Lewis University is 35 minutes away in Romeoville, Illinois. Dominican University is 10 miles west of the Loop in River Forest and the Northwestern campus in Evanston is adjacent to Lake Michigan to the north.