of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and one spot above University of Washington.
== Downtown location ==
The university owns and occupies the second through sixth floors of the downtown Chicago Peoples Gas Building on Michigan Avenue in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District, across the street from the Art Institute of Chicago. It was in borrowed rooms in the then fledgling Art Institute (in its earlier home on Michigan Avenue at Van Buren) that the university held its first classes.
In December 2018 National Louis University purchased another building known as The Gage Building, at 18 S. Michigan Ave. Construction began in 2019 to create the new home of Kendall College's culinary arts and hospitality management programs.
== Notable alumni ==
Asheru, hip-hop musician
Greg Baxtrom, American chef
Angela Brown-Burke (2015), Jamaican politician, Member of Parliament MP, Former Mayor of Kingston & St. Andrew, Former Senator
Harriet Frances Carpenter, educator and writer
Judy Erwin, Illinois State Representative
Linda …
