William Eckhardt Research Center

William Eckhardt Research Center is an university building in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on South Ellis Avenue. William Eckhardt Research Center is situated nearby to the grassland North Sciences Quadrangle, as well as near Joe and Rika Mansueto Library.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Joe and Rika Mansueto Library and Regenstein Library.

Joe and Rika Mansueto Library

Library

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The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is a storage library of the University of Chicago. Part of the University of Chicago Library system, it has a capacity of 3.5 million volumes under an elliptical dome.

Regenstein Library

Library

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The Joseph Regenstein Library, colloquially The Reg, is the primary library of the University of Chicago. Part of the University of Chicago Library system, it is located on the university’s Hyde Park campus on the South Side of Chicago. Regenstein Library is situated 490 feet east of William Eckhardt Research Center.

Smart Museum of Art

Museum

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The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The permanent collection has over 17,000 objects. Smart Museum of Art is situated 710 feet northeast of William Eckhardt Research Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hyde Park and Washington Park.

Hyde Park

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Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…

Washington Park

Suburb

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Washington Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is located on the South Side of Chicago The community area includes the 372 acre park of the same name, stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd.

Woodlawn

Suburb

Woodlawn is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is near the shore of Lake Michigan 8.5 miles south of the Loop. The community area is bounded by the lake to the east, 60th Street to the north, King Drive to the west and 67th Street to the south, and a small area that lies south of 67th Street between Cottage Grove Avenue and South Chicago Avenue.

William Eckhardt Research Center

Type: University building
Address: 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Categories: building and education
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.79193° or 41° 47′ 31″ north

Longitude

-87.60171° or 87° 36′ 6″ west

Levels

Open location code

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OpenStreetMap ID

way 387213841

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