The University of Illinois was founded in 1867 and expanded into Chicago
in the 1890s. Through time, demands for the growth of the urban campus
were answered. Under the leadership of Mayor Richard J.
Daley, the Circle Campus was created and located in 1965 on the Near
West Side of Chicago in the historic Hull-House neighborhood. In 1982,
Circle Campus joined with the Medical Center to form the University of
Illinois at Chicago. With outreach programs coordinated in the Great
Cities Initiative, the University recognized its urban location as a
major strength. Over the last decade, UIC has helped to develop a new
model of higher education: the comprehensive urban research university.
This volume contains almost two hundred historic photographs that
serve as a rich record of the Chicago campus of the University of
Illinois. Today, with 15 colleges located in a prominent urban setting,
the campus is the largest and most diverse in the Chicago area, serving
students from around the world. The University of Illinois at Chicago
has grown to about 25,000 students, with 12,000 faculty and staff, and
is one of the hundred largest research universities in the nation. It
offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in more than 230
disciplines.