FACILITIES

In January 1992, Chicago-Kent moved to a new, ten-story, state-of-the-art facility in downtown Chicago. The new IIT Downtown Campus houses the law school as well as the university's Stuart School of Business and Graduate Program in Public Administration.

The extensive computer network created in the building is an essential educational feature of the classrooms and library. Almost all classroom seats, many library carrels and numerous locations throughout the building are tied to the computer network. More than one hundred personal computers are reserved exclusively for law student use and provide access to the local area network and the Internet. Students with their own laptop computers are able to connect into the network at various points throughout the building.

The Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom, named for the distinguished Chicago-Kent graduate and former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, integrates design features from the best courtrooms and trial advocacy training facilities in the nation. Planned for both law school instruction and actual legal proceedings, the Marovitz Courtroom incorporates the latest computer and audiovisual technologies in a traditional setting. Finalists in the Ilana Diamond Rovner Moot Court Competition present their arguments in the Marovitz Courtroom during the spring term of their first year.

The Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium, named for the prominent Chicago-Kent alumnus and former governor of Illinois, is a 350-seat, two-level auditorium equipped with front- and rear-screen video projection systems and television cameras that can record proceedings. Academic convocations and student assemblies are often transmitted live via the Internet as well as in-house to TV monitors in classrooms and other locations throughout the building.

The downtown campus library is located on levels six through ten of the building and comprises one of the largest law school libraries in the country as well as the Stuart Business Library. The library's tenth-floor reading room is a modern reproduction of a traditional nineteenth century reading room, with a 23-foot high vaulted ceiling and a stunning view of the Chicago skyline. The library is computerized throughout--with a Web-based catalog--and contains special study rooms. Faculty offices encircle three floors of the library to create a sense of community and increase professor/student contact.