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Chicago is a fun city.  UofC has great museums, cafes, Folk Festival, Doc Film series on campus (which is beautiful). Good access (transit pass, arts pass, planned outings) to off-campus museums, arts events, etc.  My DC had very similar interests/social life.  Now in a Bio PhD program. [/quote]

Interesting to read posts like this but when that UChicago student was killed this summer on the way back to campus from his downtown internship, many comments suggested he shouldn't have been using that specific train route or something along those lines. So the university and its boosters rah-rah public transit, but once on campus, naive students are supposed to know all these unspoken train and bus stops and routes to avoid? The city is totally safe... EXCEPT for...  :roll: [/quote]

Simple answer — different posters/different perspectives.  I wrote the post you’re quoting. My DC, a recent UofC grad, took public transit everywhere — including that line. It was tragic that a college student got killed while riding the El home from his summer internship downtown by a bullet fired from outside the train. But it’s not a sign that riding public transit or living in Chicago or going to UofC = putting your life at risk. Nothing = “totally safe” — and certainly not any environment that includes cars or drugs or alcohol or guns — which is pretty much all of the US. [/quote]

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