UIC Herstory
This Dean of LAS is also a professor of Germanic Studies and History.
Who is Astrida Orle Tantillo?
UIC Flames love to head to Greektown to devour this flaming cheese dish.
What is saganaki?
Jake and Elwood cruise down Maxwell Street in their 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan in this legendary Chicago movie.
What is Blues Brothers?
This side of campus is home to Walter Netch’s original brutalist architecture, including University Hall.
What is the East Side?
MSLC
What is the Math & Science Learning Center?
This 4-word Center for Cultural Understanding and Social Change unit is celebrating its 30th anniversary at UIC.
What is the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center? (WLRC)
This Little Italy old-school restaurant has no signage that lists its name.
What is Tufano’s Vernon Park Tap?
Before Grey’s Anatomy, fictional doctors from this show worked at the County General Emergency Room in Chicago and filmed at UIC’s west side health science campus.
What is ER?
The Chicago Cubs original baseball home — and where the phrase way out of left field originated — is this side of UIC’s campus.
What is the West Side?
BAT
What is Burnham, Addams and Taft Halls?
This Nobel-prize winner established Chicago’s first public playground and public art gallery.
Who is Jane Addams?
Two UIC alums (Biological Sciences and Engineering) started this tasty University Village Vietnamese banh mi shop.
What is Lotus?
This 2005 film with great shots in University Hall features Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson & Queen Latifah.
What is Stranger Than Fiction?
UIC’s Curtis Granderson Stadium and the original site of the Maxwell Street Market is located here.
What is the South Side?
SURS
What is the State Universities Retirement System?
A political science ‘69 alum of UIC, she was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
Who is Carol Moseley Braun?
This is the name of the robot who delivers food at UIC.
What is Starship?
Jordan Peele recently wrote the new sequel to this “sweet” thriller filmed on the UIC campus.
What is Candyman?
This is where Google’s Midwest Headquarters is located — just north of campus from University Hall.
What is the West Loop?
UICC
What is the University of Illinois Circle Campus?
Mary Dillon ‘83, studied marketing and Asian Studies (before Global Asian Studies!), is the CEO of this “beauty” shop.
What is Ulta Beauty?
Jimmy created this famous Chicago dog featuring grilled onions and yellow mustard.
What is the Maxwell Street Polish?
The UIC Police Station features prominently in the opening sequence in this 1980s police tv show.
What is Hill Street Blues?
These are the four CTA train stops that serve UIC.
What is Illinois Medical District, Racine, UIC-Halsted (Blue line) and Polk (Pink line)?
L@S GANAS
What is Latin@s Gaining Access to Networks for Advancement in Science?