The campus is located in the metropolitan Chicago, a city with a population of approximately 3,500,000.
Local transportation provides easy access to mass rail and air transportation.
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport departs to points all over the world. The city of Chicago offers an array of social and cultural activities including boating, skiing, ice-skating, concerts, museums, a zoo, national sports, and shopping. Chicago is home of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Ebony Magazine. Chicago also is the headquarters for several national fraternities and sororities. Founded as Woodrow Wilson Junior College in 1935, the College was initially operated by the Chicago Board of Education until the Illinois State System of Community College Districts took control of it on July 1, 1966.