Although there are 20 to 40 people each term, you'll live with 3 or 4 other students, sharing cooking, cleaning and household responsibilities. Each apartment is given a charge account at three local grocery stores for food and apartment maintenence items.

Why Cooperative Living? The living space becomes a nexus for community among participants and some of the best learning happens in the context of late night discussions.  In fact, life long friendships are often forged through this aspect of the Chicago Center program. 

Our beautiful apartments - both vintage and modern - are fully furnished, including utilities and phone, A/C in each bedroom or central air, TV and DVD player, cable TV, internet, Wi-Fi.

Apartments are ready for you to move into the first day of the term. Each apartment has an fully equipped kitchen (big enough to eat-in, or with adjacent dining room), living room, 2 or 3 bedrooms (twin-size beds, dressers, basic lamps, large closets) and 2 bathrooms. Most have a porch or balcony.

Coffeshops, bookstores, banks, shops and our office are all within walking distance. Every apartment is close to public transportation and a short bus ride from downtown, or a walk to the lakefront!

Our Neighborhod, Hyde Park

Our student apartments and offices are located in one of the country's most historic and diverse neighborhoods, Chicago's lakefront Hyde Park.

World-renown museums and art galleries, including the Museum of Science and Industry, DuSable Museum of African American History, the Oriental Institute and the Renaissance Gallery populate Hyde Park. We're also home to the University of Chicago and several seminaries.

Parks, courtyards and public art spaces give another reason Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most desirable neighborhoods.