OK this week there is a theme ...
(Yeah I know, campus #3 has it's name in big white letters on a rooftop ... but it looked great on Google Earth, so I included it anyway ... and it seems like campus #3 has one of these too! Is there an infestation of such organisms in this area?)
As usual, leave all your answers in the comment section. (or email me)
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Campuses (campi?) one and two are on a mostly rectilinear grid, sparsely populated, with baseball or softball fields. Definitley North America, probably western. The surrounding land in both shots is very dry; campus 1 is in a place where they irrigate heavily, possibly California or Arizona.
Campus 3 is Loyola.
Campus 4 is ugly. Tell me where it is so I can be sure never to accept a job offer from there.
The Northwestern campus looks better than any of those.
I noticed that none of the 4 campuses have football stadiums. Loyola is in Chicago, on the lake, University of Chicago is in Hyde Park (Chicago), and also has no football, so it may be #1? #4 MIGHT be Northwestern's downtown Chicago campus... It is on Lakeshore Drive, but the picture is cut-off on the Eastern side, so can't really tell. My $.02 worth.
You wish ...
So you were NOT being tricky with #4! Okay, I give up!
I went over to Google maps and zeroed in on the Northwestern University School of Law to check it out (even though they wouldn't allow such an ugly pink-orange building in Chicago), and I'm seeing some amazing stuff. In the "satellite" images. Most of the buildings around the NU Law School are leaning to the right (ENE), but there's a building on Ohio St between McClurg and Lake Shore Dr, and another at the corner of Illinois and Lake Shore Dr. that are leaning to the WSW. Meanwhile, a three-lobed apartment tower east of Lake Shore drive is leaning to the NW. It's quite comical.
there is a theme ...
Colleges without football fields, that have furry mascots of the Canis genus?
Except that Loyola Chicago is not the Greyhounds, but the Ramblers. Too many Loyolas to keep track of.
I have local knowledge--my office is on #2(the whole neighborhood is on it!) I hope that doesn't disqualify me. 1-UIC, 2-U. Chicago 3. Loyola (lakeshore campus) 4 is Columbia College. (Plus a number of other, smaller schools like DePaul, Roosevelt U., Robert Morris, Spertus U., Kent Law, etc.) I am surprised my collegues didn't respond first--they were the ones who pointed me to your post.
#1 looks dry because they just tore down an old neighborhood and marketplace to expand.
And you know I meant colleagues.
OK, I get it. The common theme is colleges that wish they were Northwestern University.
And that orange building is still ugly.
Mustafa - YES! You nailed it! GO CATS!
http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/pan/
Yup.
Columbia College is to the south of the area pictured in #4. What you're looking at is the downtown campus of DePaul (College of Commerce and CTI (Computer Science), along with some others like the School of New Learning). The orange building is CNA, an insurance company.