The University of Illinois at Chicago has been working on a new housing complex for its students. The Academic and Residential Complex, or ARC as it will be known to the UIC community, is currently under construction at the corner of Harrison Street and Morgan adjacent from the UIC-Halsted Blue line stop. This new residential complex is just part of UIC’s 10 year plan to revamp the campus into a state of the art university. Students who chose to live in ARC will be looking forward to new style dormitories with “hotel style” bathrooms. Within each four person cluster there will be a bathroom connecting both of the rooms in that cluster.
students will have more closet space with walk in closets, and added dressers in the closets as well. Instead of keys, students will use their I-Cards like hotel key-cards to swipe into their rooms. The students will also have access to a gym on the first floor of the building, which will be the fourth official rec center on the campus. ARC will also have it’s own lecture hall in the dorms as well. As part of UIC’s 10 year plan they want to implement new learning spaces in the dorms, hence why they turned the first floor of Thomas Beckham Hall (TBH) into classrooms. The lecture hall in ARC should be no bigger than the lecture halls that are in the UIC quad which holds 150-200 students. Arc will also be home to UIC’s first official Starbucks on the campus. Currently there is a mock room of the new dorm in the Atrium on East Campus for perspective students to look at and a virtual mock tour can be found on the UIC housing page. ARC is set to open its doors fall 2019 and be open to students of all years.
More information can be found at: https://today.uic.edu/new-academic-and-residential-complex-breaks-ground-at-uic
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