Every college student who does not live within a 5-mile radius of downtown should be issued a Loop Chicago neighborhood guide.  That way they might be able to find their way around when they’re at school downtown.  Whether it’s the University of Illinois-Chicago, DePaul, Loyola, University of Chicago, or some community college downtown, a lot of college students don’t know their way around the city.  Within a week or so of walking around their college, they’ll know the campus pretty well, but that’s just the campus of the college.  When you go to a college in downtown Chicago, really, the whole city is your campus.  I know that they say that after Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire that they rebuilt the city so that everyone could have an easy time finding their way around.  That’s well and good.  However, unless you’ve spent a lot of time downtown, you’re not going to know your way at first.  You have to wander around at first to get to know the lay of the city.  Only then will you never get lost.  Otherwise, you take one wrong turn and you’re heading far off into the other direction and go 10 or 15 minutes out of your way.