Bill Walker's mural, Childhood is Without Prejudice, is in Hyde Park, home of Urban Life Center.


Urban Life Center Chicago is our Classroom
Urban Life Center integrates traditional learning with first-hand experience.  Study vital issues facing and affecting urban society through experiential workshops, interactive seminars, lecture tours and internships. 
Our Programs include 1.Academic Terms for college credit,  which feature internships for any Major;  and 2. Week and weekendLearnChicago! Programsfor college and other groups.
You will find a support system of mentors, college instructors and friends to guide you as we present you with the challenges and rich culture of the city.

 
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Muralist Jose Guerrero and ULC staffer Sara Rink with the University of Iowa's TeachChicago! program (Chicago Tribune).
Urban Life Center
1515 E. 52nd Place, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60615
phone (773) 363-1312
fax (773) 363-5888
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Save the date! March 19, 2003
AfterWork Party @ ULC -- Open House 6-9 p.m.

ULC Awarded Social Action Award
In April of 1999, Urban Life Center was awarded the Social Action Award by the Midwest Sociological Society in recognition of our “exemplary practice of the principles of social action, social change, and social justice.”
July 17, 2000 was declared 
Urban Life Center Day
by the mayor of Chicago, 
Richard M. Daley.
A resolution thanking Urban Life Center for 30 years of service was read by Alderman Toni Preckwinkle and passed unanimously by the City Council of Chicago.
Urban Life Center has been named  Program of the Year by the National Society for Experiential Education.  The award was given at the NSEE Annual Conference October 27, 2000.
Read what others have to say about ULC!
Hyde Park, the neighborhood of Urban Life Center, has been named one of the country's "top neighborhoods" to live in by Money Magazine, Dec. 2000.
 In addition to good schools and low crime, Money  placed a premium on "green space, culture, and having an accessible city center."

Mural by Bill Walker, "Childhood is Without Prejudice"
(used with permission, 1998)