Gerald Ratner Athletics Center

Chicago, 5530 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 | โ˜… 4.6 (349 Review)

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Ray Varghese

โ˜… 4

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Spring Box

โ˜… 5

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Brycee W

โ˜… 5

Fun place to take the kids

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John Meder

โ˜… 4

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Kat Flowers

โ˜… 5

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anthony cruz

โ˜… 5

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Noah Kahn

โ˜… 5

great gym

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Trent Houle

โ˜… 5

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kevin yang

โ˜… 5

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Tiago M. Flora

โ˜… 4

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Swenno

โ˜… 1

Broken equipment for weeks. Wobbly benches (waiting for a lawsuit I guess). And limited hours in summer, because who would think that when closing crown already, to reduce the hours of ratner too... Most of the time way to crowded, dropping of weights, just go to a CrossFit gym๐Ÿ’€

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Biao Wang

โ˜… 5

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Lubna Saleem

โ˜… 5

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John Melel

โ˜… 5

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Marcy Franklin-Brown

โ˜… 5

I loved it!!!!!!

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Mahdi Assari

โ˜… 5

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Haley Thomas

โ˜… 5

Great variety of machines! Olympic sized pool yay!

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K H

โ˜… 3

disappointing selection of cardio equipment.

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David Messner

โ˜… 4

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Penelope Andersson

โ˜… 3

Solid spot but kinda hit or miss. Dropped like $15 for a day pass. Gymโ€™s got decent equipment, poolโ€™s nice, but man, it gets packed after 5pm โ€” like, youโ€™re waiting forever for machines. Staffโ€™s chill but not super helpful. Locker rooms could use some love too, feels a bit worn. Good enough if youโ€™re in Hyde Park, but I wouldnโ€™t go outta my way.

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aman savla (aman0)

โ˜… 4

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Hyeonjin Bang

โ˜… 5

Old machines new ppl

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Bobby Davis

โ˜… 5

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Glenn Thompson

โ˜… 5

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Chien Pang Pan

โ˜… 5

ๅคญๅฃฝ่ฎš

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Saray Paruta

โ˜… 2

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Peter Chen

โ˜… 5

It's not the biggest gym, but that's to be expected given that it's in Chicago. The space that they have is used very effectively though, and the pool looks huge and well-maintained, although I haven't swam in years. Some of the weight equipment show their age, but even then, everything is really well taken care of, and there are also plenty of newer equipment too. There's a good focus on powerlifting and free weights in the weight room, and the equipment selection shows that. They allow chalk which is fairly uncommon in my experience for school gyms (neither UIC nor UIUC allows chalk for example) and commercial gyms.
They have a variety of barbells, including women's bar (35 lbs and 25 mm diameter) and I think even some power bars (45 lb and 29 mm diameter) instead of the standard mixed use barbells (45 lb and 28.5 mm). There are 10 (12?) squat racks (technically 5(6?) two-sided full racks, but the point is that there are 10 or 12 slots with safety bar to squat and such), although there aren't any dedicated bench stations so you'll have to pull a bench over to one of the racks to bench. They have most of the weight machines you'd expect to see. The main critique I have would be that they don't seem to have a hack squat, and all their leg press machines are horizontal leg press, which feel way worse to me than angled leg press. They were doing some maintenance when I was there though, so maybe they had those machines stashed away. Also, while they don't have a hack squat, they do have 2 Smith machines so really, it's just the lack of an angled leg press that somewhat matters.
There's a decent cardio selection upstairs, and there are several rooms to play/practice other sports. It would be nice to have some matted areas to stretch and perform mobility routines/yoga, but there are portable mats available.

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Per Robert Nedergaard Nielsen

โ˜… 4

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Connie Hsu

โ˜… 5

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S H Diansyah

โ˜… 5

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Angel Josue Bahena Macedonio

โ˜… 5

5 aquรญ trabaja el buen Nelson?

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Anne Sanchez

โ˜… 5

Received a day pass while visiting the college with my son. The pool is great and the facility was really nice and clean. There was an interesting little museum and hall of Fame when you first walk into the building that was cool to see.

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tanya lizeth guevara avella

โ˜… 5

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Paul Updike

โ˜… 5

A good gym just a short walk from the commons.

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Anton Sobinov

โ˜… 2

The gym is nice but busy to the point of unusable in the summer.

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William Brown

โ˜… 5

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Ishanu Chattopadhyay

โ˜… 1

Stay away

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Brandon Allwood

โ˜… 5

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Bisola Mariam

โ˜… 5

They have basic fitness equipments for beginner and intermediate level workouts.

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Maeve Orlowsk-Scherer

โ˜… 2

Weight room is crowded and not well laid out and too small for the number of people they are trying to service. The steam room has been closed for years (with no price adjustment for a day pass.) The pool is now under construction for months. Lockers are expensive--$70 a quarter. Overall an okay gym, but lots of frustrations with it.

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J David Hillery

โ˜… 3

This review is for the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center which houses the competition pool for the university.

A parking garage is across the street, but other than that it's a challenge, For safety I would not park off campus.

My son swam in his conference meet the UAA. He swims for Washington University. Typically Emory, Chicago & WashU are the top programs in the country. The teams are competing in swim and dive.

The facility lacks adequate spectator space for very large meets such as this. The pool is a 50 meter plus diving. It's a great pool and swims fast!

The staff at the event over four days was excellent. Ticketing was handled well and the lines organized. They even had a coat check.

My deduction of 1 star is the spectator area. Not only small, but the design is poor. Only the two front rows can see well. 3.5 rounding down.

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Akhil Vaid

โ˜… 5

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Michael Grant

โ˜… 5

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Paritat Lerngutai

โ˜… 5

Excellent. Clean and modern. Go Maroons!

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Aadrita Laha

โ˜… 4

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Yuanchao Li

โ˜… 5

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Andrew Kletzien

โ˜… 5

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Jaleel Muhammad

โ˜… 5

Great sports and workout complex.

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menombabe :/

โ˜… 5

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Raj Kedda

โ˜… 5

Great Gym Facility for the students.

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Moushumi Pardesi

โ˜… 5

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Divya Swaminathan

โ˜… 5

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Ariquzzaman Tiash

โ˜… 5

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Ping Liu

โ˜… 5

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Sebastian Machera

โ˜… 3

Itโ€™s free for UChicago students and itโ€™s the strongest advantage
Almost no free lockers, very limited space, crowded

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Yessie Herrera

โ˜… 5

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Jonathan Guo

โ˜… 5

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RAJESH SARKAR

โ˜… 5

Awesome facilities provided by the university. Lots of Treadmills cycling and weightlifting equipment are available here for everyone. Swimming training facilities are good. Only the issue is after COVID there is no locker facilities.

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Nikita Onizhuk

โ˜… 5

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Isadora Richardson

โ˜… 5

A very reasonable gym

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Cicero Brooks

โ˜… 5

Beautiful facility. Friendly staff. Highly recommended

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Thayrine Reis

โ˜… 5

Excelente.

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BOYUAN YU

โ˜… 5

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Ysknshdkh Tksnhdkdb

โ˜… 5

Also decent space nice staff good music and eye candy

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Haydee Marino

โ˜… 4

A gym should open before 7 amโ€” thereโ€™s always a long line of people trying to cram a workout in before work and class. For a state of the art facility and one of the best gyms Iโ€™ve ever been to (only outranked by the East Bank Club), whoever runs this gym must not realize some people like to exercise in the morning >:(

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A V

โ˜… 5

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Mary-Ann Brunk

โ˜… 5

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April Grinter

โ˜… 5

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Renan

โ˜… 4

Quite new equipments, everything is super clean. Very good locker rooms, but the prices to rent a locker are absurd

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Bhuvana Ramaswamy

โ˜… 5

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Kotaro Yoshida

โ˜… 5

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Dominik Olech

โ˜… 1

If you're not a student/employee they won't let you in, no exceptions. They don't sell guest passes. I wish they could write something on their website

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Luiz Renato Valadรฃo Madoreira

โ˜… 5

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Sai Omkar Kandukuri

โ˜… 4

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Dharmendra Chatur

โ˜… 5

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SL

โ˜… 5

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Pratik Joshi

โ˜… 5

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Shubho Roy

โ˜… 5

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Nicholas Sergiwa

โ˜… 5

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Rohan hore

โ˜… 5

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Erik Hausen

โ˜… 5

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Don Barnoski

โ˜… 5

Nice gymnasium has everything students would like

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Jonah Sobel

โ˜… 5

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Zenin C. Miller

โ˜… 5

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Peter Ferjanฤiฤ

โ˜… 5

It's not the biggest or the fanciest gym, and can occasionally get a bit crowded, but it has a nice array of equipment and Brian is very friendly and helpful.

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Joel Hakala

โ˜… 5

I used only gym and treadmills but very clean and sporty environment. I will miss training here. Friendly and helpful staff.

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Chintan Singh Chhatwal

โ˜… 4

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Dimitrios Manias (Dimiman)

โ˜… 4

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Nick Mergen

โ˜… 5

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Zhenrun Zhang

โ˜… 5

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Shobhit Verma

โ˜… 5

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Tonya DeGregorio

โ˜… 1

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Diego Martรญnez

โ˜… 5

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Michael Yao

โ˜… 4

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Shobhit Verma

โ˜… 5

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Sam Houseworth

โ˜… 5

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Saumil Gaonkar

โ˜… 5

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Sรฉrgio Gonรงalves

โ˜… 5

Very nice gym

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Robin Aaron

โ˜… 2

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Cesar Stuardo

โ˜… 5

Nice and clean!

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Sophia Huang

โ˜… 5

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Nikita Jain

โ˜… 5

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Michael Guilmette

โ˜… 5

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Romana Torres

โ˜… 5

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M B

โ˜… 4

Not bad at all. Front desk clerk was nice!

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Maged Hossameldin

โ˜… 4

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Aryan Kumar

โ˜… 5

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Daniel Segura

โ˜… 5

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Jade Ryan-Smyth

โ˜… 5

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Angel Salazar

โ˜… 5

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Brett Graves

โ˜… 5

Solid gym, has barbells which is surprising uncommon. Good for cardio, but I'm not a fan of most of the ellipticals

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Justin Fleischmann

โ˜… 5

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Chih-Hsuan Wu

โ˜… 5

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Tim Kelley

โ˜… 5

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nashir soumanou

โ˜… 5

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Sarah Presant

โ˜… 5

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vivek kumar

โ˜… 5

All the facilities are available

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Twila Bietila

โ˜… 4

Good girls basketball team

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Reginaldo Josรฉ Gomes Neto

โ˜… 5

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David Sung

โ˜… 5

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rhys taylor

โ˜… 5

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Sidney Mau

โ˜… 4

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Adriรกn Dรญaz

โ˜… 5

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Isabel O'Malley-Krohn

โ˜… 4

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Dominic DiCarlo

โ˜… 4

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Marlon Billups

โ˜… 5

Clean facilities, nice personnel and very convenient with plenty of parking

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Lawrence Johnson

โ˜… 5

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Rob Mcgee

โ˜… 5

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Mercedes Cardenas

โ˜… 5

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Tiffany L

โ˜… 4

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Jonathan Colen

โ˜… 1

Facilities manager is incompetent and refuses to do his job, and lies about it when confronted.

Morning frost doesn't remain on the ground until mid-afternoon, especially if it's in the mid-40s all day. Take some accountability and do your job

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S Stankovic

โ˜… 5

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Javier Crespo

โ˜… 5

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Miguel Anderson

โ˜… 5

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Caitlin Cash

โ˜… 4

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Nathan MacChesney

โ˜… 3

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Sid Colton

โ˜… 5

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Martin C

โ˜… 5

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crystal Wilson

โ˜… 5

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Katrina Whitlow

โ˜… 4

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Mac Quast

โ˜… 5

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Rene Laine

โ˜… 5

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Deepa Gokhale-Bhujle

โ˜… 5

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Jesse Holmes

โ˜… 5

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Tre Nowaczynski

โ˜… 4

A little cramped at times, but overall great equipment and flexible hours

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Raymond Ecarma

โ˜… 5

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David R

โ˜… 5

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Alper Cezmi Ozdemir

โ˜… 5

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Pedro Rojas

โ˜… 5

Lovely place... In the entrance it is shown a lot of trophies won by the university...

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Baiyang Dai

โ˜… 5

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Stephanie Gwee

โ˜… 5

My place to go for gym. A lot of treadmill selections, indoor swimming pool, weight lifting, indoor basket ball, some fun classes like, zumba, dance, yoga, etc. You can join as member or any other club it has. You can go very early as it open at 6 am and bring all the stuff, like clothes to take shower there before your class/work start. Happy sweating!

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Ehsan Azarmsa

โ˜… 5

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Anthony Santiago Chaves Aguilar

โ˜… 5

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Alan Smith

โ˜… 5

Gorgeous

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Rodrigo Diaz

โ˜… 5

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Najeem Temmy Ojulari

โ˜… 4

Decent gym. Discounts for certain things so inquire if you are affiliated with the university in some capacity. Work out area for weights is relatively small. Pool is world class and courts are usually available for basketball and other things.

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Efrรฉn Muรฑoz

โ˜… 5

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Justin Podowski

โ˜… 5

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โ˜… 5

Modern sports center for people associated with UChicago

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Jiangbo Wei

โ˜… 5

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Steve P

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Elena Podmareva

โ˜… 5

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Evan Trowbridge

โ˜… 5

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Leo Chaney

โ˜… 1

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Chant Zine

โ˜… 5

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Madan Kumar

โ˜… 4

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Charleston Wang

โ˜… 4

This place is very cheap and offers a wide range of gym equipment and facilities.

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Kevin Singh

โ˜… 5

I work out here almost every morning. A little cramped in the weight room but you can find most weightlifting equipment here. You can also perform Olympic lifts (provided it's not crowded)

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Doug Stull

โ˜… 5

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Roman Patha

โ˜… 5

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Monnaf Haque

โ˜… 5

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Tracey Ladner (Gerisgrltrl2)

โ˜… 5

Excellent college athletic center

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Longlong Tian

โ˜… 5

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israel martinez

โ˜… 5

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Zack Olson

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Diogo Viveiros

โ˜… 4

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Andrew Bacotti

โ˜… 5

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Sabrina Castillo

โ˜… 5

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Kavya S Pillai

โ˜… 5

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Benjamin Tyler

โ˜… 5

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Zhenghong Zhang

โ˜… 4

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Jay Kim

โ˜… 5

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Tran Dang Huy

โ˜… 5

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Jennelle Taylor

โ˜… 5

Best ever

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Amanda Dennis

โ˜… 4

Exactly what you would expect a college gym to look (smell) like.

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Daniel Salovesh

โ˜… 5

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David Light

โ˜… 5

Best place to work out, beautiful pool and facilities

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Dan Bivona

โ˜… 4

It has the classical walls and windows appearance of most indoor athletic centers. You can run in place in many places and styles throughout this large modern structure. Ultimately it's only downside is that other people use it.

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Anastasia Simonoff

โ˜… 5

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Stijn Bluiminck

โ˜… 5

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Lucy

โ˜… 5

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Peter Hart

โ˜… 3

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Jeanette Hardin

โ˜… 5

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Andy

โ˜… 5

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Benjamin Stallworth

โ˜… 5

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Vepa Rozyyev

โ˜… 4

This UChicago sports center. Contains gym swimming pool, basletball court and many other sports facilities. All facilities are very clean. This is free for UChicago members, but do not know the regulations for outsiders.

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Brian L-C

โ˜… 5

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Zitter Pappel

โ˜… 5

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Shakita Turner

โ˜… 5

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Macarena Lagos

โ˜… 5

Very complete gym, variety of equipment and classes

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