Vacuum cleaners can be borrowed from the main desk. You cook for yourself unless you arrange to participate in a university meal plan. The el stops right outside the dorm, but you have to get used to the noise of the trains. Many students take the el to get to the Chicago campus and to downtown Chicago. Outdoor and indoor parking below the building is available for a fee.
Spaces are limited.
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times can be delivered to you. For the first half of Intro, you'll be in class all day, every day. If you are in the broadcast program, you should probably consider living downtown. You'll be spending a lot of time in the Chicago newsroom. It will make it easier when you start reporting.