The University of Illinois Chicago is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop.

Who founded UIC?

Richard J.

Daley envisioned and established a public university for the city of Chicago. UIC's Richard J. Daley Library holds the late mayor's personal and family archive and political papers of two other Chicago mayors.

Where was the first campus of UIC located?

On this day in 1965, Chicago got its first, full-fledged public university. The University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus was dedicated. The university had been founded at Urbana in 1867. The first Chicago branch opened in 1946 at Navy Pier—“Harvard on the Rocks,” the students called it.