How's the Weather?

JHS
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:16:14 +0000

The “surrounded by projects” line is silly. But it’s true that the area around Chicago is somewhat lacking in urban excitement – shops, clubs, cheap restaurants. They’re there, but fewer and at a lower energy level than you would find around other urban campuses like Penn, NYU, Columbia, Harvard, Georgetown, even Brown. Hyde Park is basically a residential neighborhood. What it does have is a lot of great bookstores. And non-chain coffee is not in short supply.