University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is made up of an undergraduate college and four graduate research divisions, in the arts and humanities, the biological sciences, the physical sciences and the social sciences, together with professional schools in business, social work, theology, public policy, law, medicine and molecular engineering. Its Metallurgical Laboratory produced the world's first human-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction beneath the viewing stands of Stagg Field, and the university operates and administers research institutions including Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in North America. The current university was incorporated in 1890 with a donation from John D. Rockefeller and land donated by Marshall Field, and its faculty and alumni include four Turing Award winners.