5,000 students. The university is a member of the Concordia University System, a nationwide network of colleges and universities affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Concordia Chicago, originally named Addison Teachers Seminary, was founded in the Lutheran tradition by German immigrants in 1864. The university continues to maintain strong ties to its faith-based heritage.
== History ==
=== Background ===
Lutheran teacher training in the United States began in Perry County, Missouri; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1839, 1846, and 1855 respectively. In 1857, the responsibility for the operation of the teachers seminary in Milwaukee was given to the LCMS. Subsequently, the Milwaukee teachers seminary moved and merged operations with Fort Wayne's uniting it with the theological seminary that had been founded there by followers of Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe.
In October 1863, the LCMS in convention voted unanimously to move the teachers seminary to Addison, Illinois, appointed …
