Grade 2007-08 Tuition & Fees Quarterly Tuition
Grades 9 - 12 $20,445 $6,815
Abbott Laboratories
Location: Abbott Park, Illinois, United States
Filling baby bottles and soothing tummies are a habit for Abbot. Abbott Laboratories is
one of the US's top health care products makers. The
The Chicago Maroon, an independent student newspaper since 1892, is published Tuesdays
and Fridays during the autumn, winter, and spring quarters, and on a rolling schedule on the
Web only during summer quarter.
Chicago attracted a combined 44.17 million people in 2006 from around the nation and
abroad.[23] Upscale shopping along the Magnificent Mile, thousands of restaurants, as well as
Chicago's eminent architecture, continue to draw tourists. The city is the United States' third-
largest convention destination.[24] Most conventions are held at McCormick Place, just south of
Soldier Field.
Navy Pier, 3,000 feet (900 m) long, houses retail, restaurants, museums, exhibition halls, and
auditoriums. Its 150-foot (46 m) tall Ferris wheel is north of Grant Park on the lakefront and is
one of the most visited landmarks in the Midwest, attracting about 8 million people
annually.[25]
The historic Chicago Cultural Center (1897), originally serving as the Chicago Public Library,
now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries, and exhibit halls. The ceiling of
Preston Bradley Hall includes a 38-foot (11 m) Tiffany glass dome.
Millennium Park, initially slated to be unveiled at the turn of the 21st century, and delayed for
several years, sits on a deck built over a portion of the former Illinois Central rail yard. The
park includes the reflective Cloud Gate sculpture (known locally as "The Bean"). A Millennium
Park restaurant outdoor transforms into an ice rink in the winter. Two tall glass sculptures
make up the Crown Fountain. The fountain's two towers display visual effects from LED images
of Chicagoans' faces, with water spouting from their lips. Frank Gehry's detailed stainless steel
band shell, Pritzker Pavilion, hosts the classical Grant Park Music Festival concert series.
Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for
mid-sized performing arts companies, including Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the
Baroque.
In 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a 10-acre (4-ha) lakefront park
surrounding three of the city's main museums: the Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum of
Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium. The Museum Campus joins the southern section of
Grant Park which includes the renowned Art Institute of Chicago. Buckingham Fountain
anchors the downtown park along the lakefront.
The Oriental Institute, part of the University of Chicago, has an extensive collection of ancient
Egyptian and Near Eastern archaeological artifacts. Other museums and galleries in Chicago
are the Chicago History Museum, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Polish Museum of America, and
the Museum of Science and Industry.
Numerous Forest Preserves scattered around the Chicago area, along with the Indiana Dunes
National Lakeshore in neighboring Northwest Indiana, provide additional recreational
opportunities.
One famous Chicago landmark is Buckingham Fountain. Built in 1927, it is one of the world's
largest fountains, and holds 1.5 million gallons of water. The four seahorses on the fountain
symbolize the four states that touch Lake Michigan: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Every 20 minutes, the fountain shoots a jet of water 150 feet into the air, and at dusk the
display features lights and music.
The Sears Tower is 1,400 feet tall and has 110 stories. If you take the Sears Tower Skydeck,
you'll ride the "Elevator to the Stars" and land on the 1353-foot high Skydeck. From your view
on the 103rd floor, you can see four states!
The first ferris wheel in the world premiered in Chicago at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, held
to celebrate 400 years since Columbus discovered America. The wheel was 250 feet in
diameter, and had a 45-ton axle. Dubbed "The World's Greatest Ride," the ferris wheel was
reused in 1904 at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, and then promptly dynamited and sold for scrap
metal.
Chicago has numerous nicknames, including:
• Chicago, Pride of the Rustbelt
• City of the Big Shoulders
• Gem of the Prairie
• Hog Butcher to the World
• "I Will" City
• Packingtown
• Second City
• Windy City
Chicago's latin motto is Urbs in Horto, meaning "City in a Garden."
University Community Service Center (UCSC)
One of the most popular programs, the Summer Links Internship Program, puts students
in paid, full-time internships in the nonprofit public sector and in community schools.
Work is supplemented with educational and social happenings across the city, and
students consistently report that Summer Links opened doors to lifelong pursuits.
Mayor Richard M. Daley
