https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/11/21/new-megadorm-coming-university-make-student-live-d/
This is remarkably similar to the move UPenn just made: https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/09/upenn-2021-sophomore-housing-required-greek
Sure, living on campus can enhance community ties, but neither Chicago or Penn engaged in the appropriate investment to make really compelling housing choices - choices that would also see interest for FOUR years, let alone two. (Put another way, this seems smack of Chicago and Penn looking enviously at the residential systems found at Harvard or Yale, and trying to emulate them. The ecosystem around Chicago is very different, than, say, New Haven.)