<p>THanks for the rundown on the neighborhood around the campus. Doesn’t seem rundown. Further, some of you seem to be parents and it is obvious that u care about your kids (u would nt send them to a bad area, I cd tell). My son has been extremely busy handling his challenging jr worklaod , so I have trying been to scout candidate colleges for him. One of the few things I heard him say, however, as a criterion, was that he was not comfortable with ‘sketchiness’ in the locale and rundown-ness in the facilities. </p>
<p>This is different than me - I believe college is about the life of the mind+, peeling paint is to be forgiven, and those ‘sketchy’ characters are really your fellow human beans 
But he is the guy who has to live there for 4 yrs.</p>
<p>We are from chicago and do not have tons of resources so we need to get as much info as possible b4 visiting.</p>
<p>+I liked the close up picture in the above panaroma link of the library showing Aristotle, one of my heroes.</p>