University of Illinois at Chicago. Office of the Chancellor.

In 1946, the University of Illinois opened the Chicago Undergraduate Division on the north half of Navy Pier, designed as two-year institution to accommodate the large number of veterans returning from the Second World War and to prepare them to move to the main campus in Urbana to complete their degrees. The University established the position of Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division as the chief administrator of the campus (later upgraded to Executive Dean), and the Board of Trustees appointed Charles C. Cavney to the ofice. In 1965, after an extented and controversial search, the campus moved to space in the New West Side of Chicago and became a degree-granting institution. The University of Illinois at Congress Circle, Chicago, was proposed as the name for the name for the new campus, but ultimately it opened as the University Illinois at Chicago Circle. The administrative leader on campus, Norman Parker, assumed the title of Vice President in Charge of the Chicago Circle Campus until the University established the current chancellor system in 1966, and promoted then Vice President Parker to Chancellor. He was followed by Warren B. Cheston in 1971 and Donald Riddle in 1976. In 1982, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle merged with the University of Illinois at the Medical Center and the two campuses were officially combined into the University of Illinois at Chicago or UIC. Following the merger, Donald N. Langenberg filled the new chancellorship over the combined campus. Previously a strictly commuter school, Chancellor Langenberg created the first residential housing for students on the campus. He was followed by James Stukel in 1991, David Broski in 1995, Sylvia Manning in 1999, and Paula Allen-Meares in 2009.