About HWC
Visiting and Parking Information
Harold Washington College (HWC) is located in an eleven-story building at the corner of Lake and Wabash Streets in the City of Chicago, Illinois - USA. Built in 1983, it contains approximately 70 general classrooms, large and well equipped laboratories and studio spaces, student lounges with food and drink vending machines, and multipurpose meeting rooms, in addition to departmental, administrative and faculty offices.
At Harold Washington College each academic department's facilities reflect state-of-the-art modernity, from Chemistry's spectrophotometers and Information Technology's microcomputers to Architecture & Engineering's Computer-Assisted-Design systems, the Foreign Language laboratory's taped program library, and state of the art computers and software. In addition to more than 55,000 books, the Library and Learning Resource Center has a media-production room with audio/video tape facilities, and student carrels with television receivers, audio/video tape recorders, phonographs and slide viewers. The entire building at Harold Washington College is fully accessible to the disabled. For additional location and travel inforamtion to Harold Washington College, please visit our College Location web page.
Current location of HWC offices and departments (Last Updated: May 26, 2010):
First Floor:
- Admissions, Advising Office, Transfer Center (Room 101)
- International Student Office (Room 106)
- Loading Dock, Receiving Room (Room 104)
- Supply Room (Room 104-A)
- Mail Room, Storekeeper's Office (Room 105)
- Disability Access Center - DAC (Room 107)
Floor Two:
- Business Operational Services and Payment (Room 207)
- Career Planning & Placement Center (Room 203-A)
- Phi Theta Kappa - Mu Pi Chapter (Room 205)
- Registrar's Office (Room 209), Security (Room 206)
- Student Activities/Student Clubs (Room 204), Student Government (Room 204)
- Financial Aid (Room 202), Student Services (Room 201)
Floor Three: Business & Computer Information Systems (Room 311)