integrate Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theology with these topics. In 2017, CTS established the InterReligious Institute (IRI), which stands counter to the idea that Christianity is the “normal” religious position for Americans and seeks to create space in the public square for people of other religions and for people with no religion at all. IRI does this by providing ongoing events, resources, and training materials for the public. In 2019, CTS began a partnership with Bayan Claremont to provide both a graduate certificate and an accredited Master of Divinity in Islamic Chaplaincy at the seminary's Hyde Park campus. Notable firsts CTS is the oldest institution of higher education in Chicago. CTS faculty and students participated in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad prior to the Civil War. First seminary to introduce field education into a seminary curriculum in the US. First to create a distinct Department of Christian Sociology in an American theological school. First seminary to award a degree in divinity to a woman in the US. (Florence Fensham, 1902) Faculty and students instrumental in founding the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) in 1930. First seminary in the US to award Martin Luther King Jr. an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree for his activism in the civil rights movement. First African American to lead a predominantly white theological school (C. Shelby Rooks, 1974–1984). First free-standing Protestant seminary to endow a chair in Jewish Studies, advancing interfaith engagement and multi-faith education. Campus The original buildings were designed by Herbert Riddle and built between 1923 and 1928. Riddle was the architect for Mather Tower in the Loop, as well as many buildings in New York. The original CTS building complex included stained glass windows, medieval style groin vaulting, furniture, lighting fixtures, ceramic ornament and tile work, and architectural relics—all of the highest quality of the day. New building The seminary, which was for decades located at 5757 South University Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, adjacent to the University of Chicago, during the 2011/2012 academic year moved to 1407 East 60th Street, also in Hyde Park. The building designed by Riddle that had served as a seminary for decades became home to the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. Construction of the new $30 million CTS facility was a partnership between the University of Chicago and