One of the proposed locations that Chicago is suggesting is the area west of Burnham Park in Bronzeville. Potential benefits to UChicago in terms of partnerships, funding, employment/internships, safety, funding for facilities in the south side.
(Note: I heard University of Washington and its business school is experiencing historically high yield and low acceptance rate – and its all because of Amazon, is what they say.)
And Amazon gets to have access to the lakefront, good schools (IIT, UI-C, UChicago), the of course the city itself… the only city outside of the east and west coasts, that is never considered a flyover city, a big city near the middle of US/Canada landmass that is ideal for a supply chain operation + plus a massive airport/train hub. A lot of cheap land in the suburbs and in Indiana for robot-manned warehouses. A lot of cold winter air for robot-manned server farms in the prairie.