Chicago Center for Urban Life & Culture

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Live, work and learn in Chicago.

Learn from the city firsthand while living in Chicago's historic Hyde Park neighborhood.

Be a student of the city.

With Chicago Center you'll be exposed to diverse urban communities through an innovative practicum unlike any other in the world.

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For Forty years Chicago Center has been expanding Liberal Arts Education.

"Childhood is Without Prejudice" by Bill Walker

Make Chicago Your Classroom

Chicago Center equips college students and other participants to learn from diverse urban communities through innovative programs, seminars and internships.

The Center expands the traditional classroom with a community-based, first-voice pedagogy that prepares its students for greater self-awareness and global citizenship.

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“I took away a lot from each community, every person... everything came together to give me one of the most rewarding and beneficial experiences that I have ever had in my life.”
- Stephanie Kluk, Albion College, Comadres, Fall 2009