Northwestern University (NWU)

Wicker Park is the neighborhood with the highest concentration of young people and interesting bars. I am not into sports, so I avoid bars with televisions or fanatical sport clientele. Rainbo on Damen and Division streets is my usual hangout. Earwax on Milwaukee Avenue has progressive crowd. Myopic books two blocks south of Earwax has a great selection of used books and they allow smoking in the store. For an unpretentious night on the town, I would go to Irazu, a Costa Rican restaurant on Milwaukee south of Western Avenue, for a vegetarian burrito; see a show at Big Horse or Empty Bottle. For foreign films, the best places to go are Landmark Century Theatres on Clark Street in Lincoln Park and the Gene Siskel Film Center located downtown on State Street.

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