The University of Chicago is in the historic, residential neighborhood of Hyde Park, just 20 minutes south of downtown Chicago. This location provides the best of two worlds: a neighborhood with a college-town feel and easy access to everything else in a world-class city.
Our campus is at the heart of Hyde Park, home to lifelong residents, diverse ideas, beautiful vistas, and a thriving culture. Hyde Park is also home to more than 60 percent of our faculty and their families. Parks, schools, restaurants, cafes, beautiful lakefront beaches and vistas, and community arts activities abound, and the streets of Hyde Park are abuzz with pedestrian traffic. The neighborhood offers a wealth of community activities and other forms of engagement, including museums, restaurants, the 57th Street Art Fair, historic sights, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, movies, concerts, plays, the Neighborhood Schools Program, and other research and volunteering opportunities.
Community organizations:
Spiritual life:
Safety:
- Campus Police
- Subscribe to cAlert for Emergency Updates and Security Alerts
- Common Sense Guide to Urban Living
Transportation:
- UChicago Getting Around
- Public Transportation (CTA)
- Metra Rail
- Obtaining an Illinois driver’s license and registering a car
- Chicago City Sticker – all Chicago residents must get a city sticker for their car