So you’ve gotten your Elvis smoothie and veggie bagel at Robust on 63rd and Woodlawn, sent some emails to professors, and stepped back out onto the street. Half of your smoothie still waits for consumption...

The now-defunct Checkerboard Lounge blues bar doubled as a popular UChicago college hangout before it relocated to Harper Court.  “We were there to be part of the South Side, to experience Chicago in that way.”—Ethan Michaeli (A.B. '89)