University of Chicago
A Gothic stone campus in Hyde Park, where the first nuclear chain reaction took place. It also has Robie House and a great museum of the ancient Near East.
- Open
- Campus always open; the museum has its own hours
- Price
- Free; donation at the museum
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- 5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- Metra Electric to 55th-56th-57th Street, or the 55 bus.
Why Go
Walk the Main Quadrangles and see Rockefeller Chapel. Henry Moore's Nuclear Energy marks the site of Chicago Pile-1, where Enrico Fermi's team made history in 1942. The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum, free to enter, holds a colossal bull from Persepolis and a 17-foot statue of King Tut.
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