Good Gawd,Bingley! Run for cover ... there is definetly a University of Chicago. And damned proud of it those Chicagoans are and rightly so.
Read any of Andrew M. Greeley's books and you'll find it (UC) mentioned often. Chicago is Greeley's bailiwick. I particularly liked the Father Blackie Ryan mysteries. Greely's unlikely hero got to be a Bishop then Greeley stopped writing them for awhile. However he has just come out with a new one called "The Bishop and the Missing L Train" --now in paperback. (Forge Books)
Another Father-now-Bishop Blackie Ryan mystery is due in July 2002 called : The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain, wherein Blackie goes to Paris (France, that is!)