About MIC: Locations

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MIC is the most comprehensive community music school in the Midwest.

Evanston & Nichols Concert Hall
1490 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
847.905.1500, ext. 100
Winnetka & Central Administration
300 Green Bay Road
Winnetka, IL 60093
847.905.1500 ext. 120
Dempster
2008 Dempster Street
Evanston, IL 60202
847.905.1500, ext. 120
Lincolnshire
30 Riverwoods Rd.
Lincolnshire, IL 60069
847.905.1500, ext. 120
Highland Park
Music Arts School
477 Elm Place
Highland Park, IL 60035
847.432.8474
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Evanston

Built as the First Church of Christ, Science in 1912 by acclaimed Chicago architect Solon S. Beman, the Evanston Campus was sensitively converted to a teaching and performance facility and opened in 2003. The lower level contains ten soundproof teaching studios and rehearsal rooms, a reading and listening library, and administrative offices. The upper level is the home of the elegant and acoustically perfect Nichols Concert Hall. Seating 550, the hall is the site of many student and faculty performances as well as guest-artist master classes and recitals. Nichols Concert Hall contains a completely restored 1914 E. M. Skinner pipe organ which is complimented by a 1930’s Kimball pipe organ for practice on the teaching level.

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Winnetka

The oldest location of the Music Institute of Chicago, the Winnetka Campus is located on the grounds of the North Shore Country Day School. Built in 1955 and expanded in 1985, the school includes 26 teaching and rehearsal studios, 100-seat Thoresen Performance Center, and the school’s central administration. Ample parking is available on the grounds of the campus which is also easily accessible via the Indian Hill or Winnetka stations of the Metra North Line..

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Dempster

The newest of the Music Institute of Chicago’s locations, the Dempster Street Campushouses the musical theater program and the creative arts therapy program offering drama, music, movement and visual arts therapies used to help those with psychological needs, developmental delay and physical challenges. Large equipped rehearsal studios provide space for vocal, dance, and drama preparation while a 160seat black-box theater is the site for the program’s many productions. Tech and scene rooms provide for a complete musical theater education. Ample parking is available next to the building.

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Lincolnshire

Located just off I-294, the Lincolnshire Campus is housed in the educational wing of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit just south of Half Day Road (Route 22). The program offers instruction in strings, some wind instruments and piano. Ample parking is available in the church parking lot.

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Highland Park

Founded in 1952 by respected pianist and teacher Mortimer Scheff, the Music Arts School has served generations of Highland-Parkers. Following the retirement of the founder in 2005, the Music Arts School became a not-for-profit community music school governed by a board of trustees committed to furthering Mr. Scheff’s original mission. Under the leadership of Executive Director Greg Diethrich, the school expanded to over 350 students and added course offerings, created community outreach programs, hired outstanding faculty, and funded financial aid for deserving students. The school merged with MIC in July 2007. Located in downtown Highland Park this charming Victorian-style campus offers early childhood classes, group instruction in guitar, and private lessons for strings, piano, winds, and percussion.