The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)

 university, campus

5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
www.uchicago.edu/

The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later described the University of Chicago as “the best investment I ever made.” The land for the new university, in the recently annexed suburb of Hyde Park, was donated by Marshall Field, owner of the Chicago department store that bears his name.

William Rainey Harper, the first president, imagined a university that would combine an American-style undergraduate liberal arts college with a German-style graduate research university. The University of Chicago quickly fulfilled Harper's dream, becoming a national leader in higher education and research.

The grounds for the early part of the University of Chicago were designed by Olmsted.

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