The University of Chicago is a private university located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.  The American Baptist Education Society and the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller founded the university in 1890.  The university held its first classes on October 1, 1892.

The University of Chicago is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost universities. The university is affiliated with over 80 Nobel Prize laureates, served as the site of the world’s first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction and is home to the largest university press in the United States, which publishes the highly regarded Chicago Manual of Style.

The Southside of the campus is adorned with Frederick Law Olmsted’s Midway Plaisance, a large linear park created for the 1893 World’s Fair.  The quadrangles of the main campus feature a botanical garden and neo-Gothic buildings constructed mostly out of limestone. The buildings comprising the original quadrangles were deliberately patterned after the layouts of Oxford University and Cambridge University.

To learn more about The University of Chicago, visit:  http://www.uchicago.edu/uchi/about/