Tell me about UChicago?

eddi137
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:28:21 +0000

If you are from a warm area you may feel the climate quite different from what you are used to. The city of Chicago is beautiful and magnificent, but cold and windy sometimes (or many times). Last April I was visiting there it felt quite cold with wind. But in September it felt warm and sunny.

The UChicago setting is a bit misleading. It is called urban but it should be called suburban, sort of. It is not busy at all. It is definitely not like Columbia or Princeton. The Hyde park neighborhood offers some drug stores, restaurants, grocery stores, movie theaters, office supplies, etc. But if you need more you need to go to the city.

The transportation system of Chicago is quite convenient and handy IMO. You can take metra railroad from UChicago/59th St. to downtown (loop) in about 20 minutes - though that station is not in the best condition at all. I often wonder why it has not been fixed. The CTA No. 6 bus goes to downtown too. Those train and bus run on the east side of the UChicago campus while there are other trains and buses running on the west side of campus.