Chicago, day 5, Northwestern University
We caught the train back to Michael's apartment and picked up the car to drive to the university campus. Michael is nearly at the end of his PhD thesis in history at Northwestern and needed to go in to the department to attend a lecture. Northwestern University was built in Evanston, beautifully placed next to Lake Michigan, around 12 miles north of Chicago. It was founded in 1851 by John Evans and the oldest building still standing is University Hall (1869). In 1873 the Evanston College for Ladies merged with the university, although Northwestern first admitted women students in 1869. The medical school and the law school are based in Chicago itself. The campus is an airy place with wide roads, trees and green space. Before he went in for his lecture Mike showed us the Alice Millar Chapel, built in 1962 with the most wonderful stained glass windows, designed by Belgium born Benoit Gilsoul. Their colours depict stories and allegories. The outside of the church is very convent...