University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay
4stays inside a 20-min walk
8stays inside a 10-min drive
One trip, several campuses
College visit hotels in Chicago, IL
9 schools in town169 places to stay measured
9schools,one trip
Photo: Marcin Klapczynski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.
By the numbers
9 schools in Chicago are on this site, with 169 places to stay measured around them. At 8 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 9 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Columbia College Chicago.
How to read these counts
A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method
The 9 schools in Chicago
9 schools in Chicago, in A to Z order
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay54stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveDePaul University
Chicago, IL · Private university
2 minwalk to the closest stay60stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveEast-West University
Chicago, IL · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay32stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, IL · Public university
10 minwalk to the closest stay10stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveIllinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL · Private university
8 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk17stays inside a 10-min driveLoyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay4stays inside a 20-min walk16stays inside a 10-min driveNational Louis University
Chicago, IL · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay60stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveNortheastern Illinois University
Chicago, IL · Public university
17 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk10stays inside a 10-min drive
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Getting from one campus to the next
Our drive estimates between the schools on this page, from map distance with no traffic. Add time for parking at each end. The 17 longer hops are left off.
- Columbia College Chicago to East-West Universityabout 2 min
- DePaul University to Columbia College Chicagoabout 2 min
- DePaul University to East-West Universityabout 2 min
- DePaul University to National Louis Universityabout 2 min
- National Louis University to Columbia College Chicagoabout 2 min
- National Louis University to East-West Universityabout 2 min
- University of Illinois Chicago to Columbia College Chicagoabout 4 min
- University of Illinois Chicago to DePaul Universityabout 4 min
- University of Illinois Chicago to East-West Universityabout 4 min
- University of Illinois Chicago to National Louis Universityabout 4 min
About these lists
Which colleges in Chicago, IL do you cover?
9 four-year schools in Chicago, IL: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.
Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Chicago, IL?
At 9 of the 9, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.
Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?
Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.
Where do the walking minutes come from?
From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 9 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.