Chicago

===Colleges and universities===
{{main list|List of colleges and universities in Chicago}}
[[File:Harper Midway Chicago.jpg|thumb|upright=1|The [[University of Chicago]] campus as seen from the [[Midway Plaisance]]]]
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Since the 1850s,<!-- CTS was founded in 1855 --> Chicago has been a world center of higher education and research with several universities. These institutions consistently rank among the top "National Universities" in the United States, as determined by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/il |title=2024 Best Colleges in Illinois |publisher=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=October 4, 2023}}</ref> Highly regarded universities in Chicago and the surrounding area are: the University of Chicago; Northwestern University; [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]; [[Loyola University Chicago]]; [[DePaul University]]; [[Columbia College Chicago]] and University of Illinois at Chicago. Other notable schools include: [[Chicago State University]]; the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]]; [[East–West University]]; [[National Louis University]]; [[North Park University]]; [[Northeastern Illinois University]]; [[Robert Morris University Illinois]]; [[Roosevelt University]]; [[Saint Xavier University]]; [[Rush University]]; and [[Shimer College]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.free-4u.com/Colleges/Chicago-IL-Colleges.html |title=Chicago, Illinois Colleges and Universities |publisher=Free-4u.com |access-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-date=October 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016001739/http://www.free-4u.com/Colleges/Chicago-IL-Colleges.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[William Rainey Harper]], the first president of the University of Chicago, was instrumental in the creation of the [[junior college]] concept, establishing nearby [[Joliet Junior College]] as the first in the nation in 1901.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.jjc.edu/about/pages/default.aspx |year=2009 |publisher=Joliet Junior College |access-date=July 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801202244/http://www.jjc.edu/ABOUT/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=August 1, 2009}}</ref> His legacy continues with the multiple [[community college]]s in the Chicago proper, including the seven [[City Colleges of Chicago]]: [[Richard J. Daley College]], [[Kennedy–King College]], [[Malcolm X College]], [[Olive–Harvey College]], [[Truman College]], [[Harold Washington College]] and [[Wilbur Wright College]], in addition to the privately held [[MacCormac College]].{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

Chicago also has a high concentration of post-baccalaureate institutions, graduate schools, seminaries, and theological schools, such as the [[Adler School of Professional Psychology]], [[The Chicago School of Professional Psychology]], the [[Erikson Institute]], [[The Institute for Clinical Social Work]], the [[Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago]], the [[Catholic Theological Union]], the [[Moody Bible Institute]], and the [[University of Chicago Divinity School]].{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}