34/44.- University of Chicago, Campus Building

Part of the main quad is also laid out as a botanical garden. It's quite a pleasant place on a nice late spring day (assuming it isn't overrun with students!) One of the University's principal claims to fame is nuclear energy: the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reaction took place at the University in late 1942 (and there's a plaque and modernist sculpture to mark the spot).

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