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There are 680 public schools, 394 private schools, 83 colleges, and 88 libraries in Chicago proper.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), is the governing body of a district that contains over 600 public elementary and high schools citywide, including several selective-admission magnet schools.
The school district, with an enrollment exceeding 400,000 students (2005 stat.), ranks as third largest in the U.S.
CPS is currently overseen by CEO Arne Duncan.
Private schools in Chicago are largely run by private religious groups.
The two largest systems are run by Christian religious denominations, Roman Catholic and Lutheran, respectively.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago operates the city's Roman Catholic schools, including Jesuit preparatory schools.
Some of the more prominent examples of schools run by the Archdiocese are: St.
Ignatius College Prep, St.
Scholastica Academy, Mount Carmel High School, Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, Marist High School, and St.
Patrick High School.
In addition to Chicago's network of 32 Lutheran Schools, Chicago also has private schools run by other denominations and faiths such as Ida Crown Jewish Academy in West Rogers Park, and the Fasman Yeshiva High School in Skokie, a nearby suburb.
There are also a number of private schools run in a completely secular educational environment such as: Latin School, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in Hyde Park, Francis W.
Parker School, Chicago City Day School in Lake View, and Morgan Park Academy.
Colleges and universities
Since the 1890s, Chicago has been a world center in higher education and research.
Five universities in or immediately adjoining the city, the University of Chicago, DePaul University, University of Illinois Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, and Northwestern University, are among the top echelon of doctorate-granting research universities.
The University of Chicago, one of the world's most distinguished universities, is located in Hyde Park on the city's South Side.
The university is associated with 82 Nobel Prize laureates, one of the highest of any university in the world.
Academic programs at the University of Chicago have initiated entire schools of thought named after Chicago, most notably the Chicago School of Economics.
The university also maintains the Pritzker School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Law School, and the Booth School of Business.
The University of Illinois at Chicago, a nationally ranked public research institution, is the largest university within the city.
UIC boasts the nation's largest medical school.
State funded universities in Chicago (besides UIC) include Chicago State University and Northeastern Illinois University.
The city also has a large community college system known as the City Colleges of Chicago.
Northwestern University, an elite private, Big Ten Conference university, is located in the adjacent northern suburb of Evanston.
Northwestern also maintains a downtown campus, with the Feinberg School of Medicine and School of Law, both being located in the city's Streeterville neighborhood.
Prominent Catholic universities in Chicago include Loyola University and DePaul University.
Loyola, which has campuses both on the North Side as well as downtown, and a Medical Center in the West suburban Maywood, is the largest Jesuit university in the country while DePaul, a Big East Conference university is the largest Catholic university in the U.S.
Lake Forest College is Chicago's national liberal arts college.
North Park University is located in Chicago's Albany park neighborhood, it enrolls a little over 3,000 students and has been listed on US News' college review as one of the best universities in the midwest.
The Illinois Institute of Technology main campus in Bronzeville has renowned engineering and architecture programs and was host to world-famous modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for many years, and the IIT Stuart School of Business and Chicago-Kent College of Law are located downtown in the financial district.
The Chicago area has the largest concentration of seminaries and theological schools outside the Vatican.
The city is home to the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago Theological Seminary, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, Hebrew Theological College, Meadville Lombard Theological School, North Park Theological Seminary, the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, the Moody Bible Institute, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Founded on the principles of social justice, Roosevelt University was named in honor of president Franklin D.
Roosevelt, two weeks after his death.
It houses the Theatre and Music Conservatories under the Chicago College of Performing Arts.
Rush Medical College, now part of Rush University, was the first institution of higher learning chartered in Illinois and one of the first medical schools to open west of the Alleghenies.
Fine and performing arts programs in Chicago may be pursued at the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The American Academy of Art and Columbia College Chicago.
The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, became affiliated with Le Cordon Bleu of Paris in June 2000.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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