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Come Here, Go Places DISCOVER. CONNECT. SHARE. Get a head start on the extraordinary college experience you’ll have at DePaul. Check us out at @depaulu @iamdepaul /depaulundergradadmission @depauladmission Office of Admission 1 East Jackson Boulevard Chicago, Illinois 60604-2287 DePaul University is an equal opportunity educator and employer. 1054_19 COME HERE, GO PLACES. A SELF-GUIDED TOUR OF OUR CAMPUSES LINCOLN PARK Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria Lincoln Park Zoo OLD TOWN Sweet Mandy B’s Oak Street Beach RIVER NORTH/STREETERVILLE The Second City 360 Chicago The Magnificent Mile LIFE AT DEPAUL. Chicago Riverwalk LIFE IN CHICAGO. No doubt Chicago is a big city, but it’s easy to navigate, and public transportation makes it even easier. As a DePaul student, you’ll get a U-Pass at orientation, giving you unlimited rides on CTA buses and trains for the terms you’re enrolled. You can think of your U-Pass as your key to the city. With all that Chicago has to offer, you’ll never have to wonder how to spend your free time. CHECK OUT THESE PLACES YOU CAN FIND WHILE TRAVELING BETWEEN OUR CAMPUSES. LOOP Millennium Park SOUTH LOOP Buckingham Fountain Soldier Field Art Institute of Chicago Adler Planetarium The Chicago Theatre Shedd Aquarium LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS L IN ARLINGTON PLACE C MON O TANA ST L N A V LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS E 30 Our Lincoln Park Campus covers 36 acres in one of Chicago’s most unique and lively neighborhoods. Use this KEY guide to help you explore all our campus has to offer. This campus is home to the College of Liberal Arts and T C Y DePaul Parking E Social Sciences, College of Science and Health, College of Education, School of Music and The Theatre School. R Lot P R U 12 11 S Visitor The Wintrust Arena in the South Loop Clifton Parking Deck Student Life 14 BYRNE HALL serves as home court to DePaul men’s Sheffield Parking Garage Named after DePaul’s first president, 9 Lot L 1 CORTELYOU COMMONS basketball. All athletic games are free Student Permit Parking Byrne Hall houses multiple academic Originally built in 1929, Cortelyou to DePaul students. FULLERTON AVE Clifton Parking Deck programs and student service offices, Fullerton CTA Commons accommodates banquets, 24 Red/Brown/Purple Lines Sheffield Parking Garage including the physics and psychology 33 18 28 receptions, presentations and other large 8 23 22 Lot L, Lot P T STUDENT CENTER 32 S departments, and DePaul Family and 2 events. Student organizations often use S Faculty/Staff Permit Parking This building is the hub of on-campus R Community Services. E M Clifton Parking Deck this space for gatherings, talent shows student life, hosting 7,000 events L A H Sheffield Parking Garage Sheffield Parking Garage and performances. annually, such as concerts, career and Clifton Parking Deck C 15 HOLTSCHNEIDER 25 Lot E, Lot H involvement fairs, and dances. Nestled Racine Offices St Vincent’s 29 PERFORMANCE CENTER 4 Circle 15 2 DEPAUL ART MUSEUM among the three stories are a cafeteria, The center includes teaching studios, The museum acquires, preserves and Brownstone’s Coffee Bar, study lounges 1 rehearsal space, a 505-seat, acoustically displays DePaul’s diverse and growing and multipurpose rooms. The building is optimal concert hall, two recital halls 31 collection of art and offers space for home to the Dean of Students, Student with professional-quality acoustics, and class use, programs and events. Affairs, Office of Student Involvement and 16 a 76-seat jazz hall with an intimate, jazz 35 Admission is free. the Office of Mission and Ministry. club ambiance. 21 3 JARVIS OPERA HALL 9 WELCOME CENTER 20 7 16 13 26 10 School of Music faculty and students often This building is home to Undergraduate MCGOWAN NORTH 17 3 McGowan North features a computer give vocal and instrumental performances Admission, The Office of Graduate lab, student lounge, and state-of-the-art in the opera hall. Before it became a Admission and Alumni Relations. Daily 27 science labs and classrooms. It is home to 19 performance venue, the opera hall was information sessions and campus tours 34 the Department of Biological Sciences. McClure Chapel. are offered through the Welcome Center. BELDEN AVE 17 8 4 THE QUAD 10 WISH FIELD AND MCGOWAN SOUTH This LEED Gold-certified building has The green, grassy quad was converted CACCIATORE STADIUM College of 31 modern teaching and research labs, Education from a parking lot in 1992. With its Just east of the “L” tracks is Wish Field high-tech classrooms and a full inventory Lot E 5 expansive space, greenery and Wi-Fi and Cacciatore Stadium. The field of scientific instruments. The building accessibility, the Quad is a favorite spot features artificial turf on which the men’s also features two rooftop greenhouses for students on nice days. Numerous and women’s soccer teams practice and and a weather station. The chemistry, events are held here each year, including compete; club and intramural teams also health sciences, and environmental our annual involvement fair and end-of- have access to this space. The women’s sciences and studies departments are the-year FEST concert, which has hosted softball team plays on the south end of the located here. Lot H popular recording artists, such as Diplo, field at Cacciatore Stadium. Steans Center/ T T Vincentian Residence S T S S Hellogoodbye and Wiz Khalifa. N T E O E 18 N T T RICHARDSON LIBRARY D V O T E E V S T 6 Y E E E S V E V M S E A A A 14 G V V A A E V D L T A V A D N R L Open until 2 a.m. on the weekdays, the I Y D D A E R S T F A A E L 5 R O I A Academic L R RAY MEYER FITNESS S R R L A L O H O N E S E E U N O I O A C P V I Richardson Library provides 1,200 study I W B O B N R A N H M E F H G I M O T T E AND RECREATION CENTER E K 11 A U F S 990 WEST FULLERTON C F N N seats, three study lounges, eight group A M O I Y E L A E S A L “The Ray” boasts a lap pool, four-court H R K This building is home to our sociology, W C study rooms and multiple computer labs. S gym, cycling and fitness studios, cardio political science and geography The library is connected with over 80 and strength-training equipment, and a departments. other colleges and libraries in Illinois, fourth-floor track with 360-degree views WEBSTER AVE giving students access to more than of the city. Membership is included in full- 12 1150 WEST FULLERTON 24 million items. Other resources that time undergraduate tuition. This academic building is home to the are available are our special collections Department of Art, Media and Design as and archives, along with online access to Center, Latinx Cultural Center, LGBTQIA 6 ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH 23 THE THEATRE SCHOOL 24 CENTENNIAL HALL 26 COURTSIDE APARTMENTS 28 SANCTUARY HALL AND 31 SHEFFIELD SQUARE well as DePaul’s health services clinic. DePaul’s card catalog and databases. Resource Center and Asian Pacific St. Vincent de Paul Church was completed The Theatre School was designed Located above Whole Foods and adjacent This Chicago row house was converted 29 As part of the university’s apartment A branch of the Chicago Public Library is Islander Desi American (APIDA) Center SANCTUARY TOWN HOMES in 1897, one year before DePaul was and developed specifically to meet the to the Fullerton “L” stop, Centennial into apartments—each housing 12 These apartment-style residences offer communities, Sheffield Square features located on the first floor. 19 SCHMITT ACADEMIC CENTER are located on the third floor of O’Connell founded. In addition to the regular parish creative needs of theatre artists. It houses Hall is in the heart of the action. The students. Units have access to an outdoor full kitchens, spacious living areas and two-, three- and four-person units (SAC), 20 LEVAN CENTER AND Hall. The centers serve as a space for masses and services, St. Vincent’s hosts 13 ARTS AND LETTERS HALL two theatre spaces as well as costume, building features one- and two-bedroom deck space overlooking the building’s key card swipe entry for upperclassman each with a full kitchen, living room 21 O’CONNELL HALL building community, sharing information, DePaul’s well-attended Catholic Campus This facility features 47 state-of-the-art makeup, prop and scene shops, rehearsal apartments, some with skyline views. backyard. Each unit is equipped with a full residents. and bathroom. These interconnected buildings feature encouraging dialogue, and supporting Ministry Mass on Sundays at 9:30 p.m. classrooms, several indoor lounge areas studios, lighting laboratories and kitchen, including a dishwasher, and all classrooms, computer centers and student retention and success. and an interior staircase overlooking a new-media workshops. 25 CORCORAN HALL residents have access to a laundry room. 30 SETON HALL 32 UNIVERSITY HALL, administrative offices. In particular, 7 SULLIVAN ATHLETIC CENTER dramatic, four-story atrium. This building Overlooking Cacciatore Stadium and This primarily freshman traditional-style 33 CLIFTON-FULLERTON HALL, the SAC is home to DePaul Central (a 22 SCHOOL OF MUSIC DePaul is a member of the BIG EAST is home to our Department of English Wish Field, Corcoran is a traditional- 27 MCCABE HALL residence hall features loft-style rooms 34 MUNROE HALL AND 35 one-stop shop to help students manage The School of Music building hosts Conference and is an NCAA Division I and the Department of Art History and Residential Housing style residence hall with community Known for its larger-than-life with large walk-in closets.
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