The University of Chicago (UChicago) is an elite private research university founded in 1890 in Chicago, Illinois. Renowned worldwide for its uncompromising intellectual rigor, pioneering Core Curriculum, over 99 Nobel laureates, and transformative academic schools of thought—most notably the Chicago School of Economics, Chicago School of Sociology, and Chicago School of Literary Criticism—UChicago is consistently ranked among the world's preeminent academic institutions. Located on a 217-acre botanical arboretum campus in the historic Hyde Park neighborhood seven miles south of downtown Chicago, UChicago also operates the downtown Gleacher Center along the Chicago River, national research laboratories (Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), and global centers in Paris, Beijing, Delhi, London, and Hong Kong.

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