Safety & Emergency Contacts

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Download the UChicago Safe Mobile Safety App. Features include a "mobile blue light" that simultaneously calls and sends your location to the University of Chicago Police department.
Sign-up for cAlert, the University’s electronic emergency mass notification system.

To call the UCPD in an emergency:

773-702-8181 from any phone
1-2-3 from a campus phone
Press the red button on an emergency phone. Campus has nearly 400 emergency phones; look for a blue light atop a white pole. (Map of phone locations.)

UCPD headquarters is located at 850 E. 61st Street and is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More about the University of Chicago Police Department.

911 or, from a campus phone, 9-911

The Dean-on-Call will respond to student emergencies and critical incidents 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A separate Sexual Assault Dean-on-Call is also available around the clock and is trained as a Sexual Assault Survivor Advocate through the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault. For more information and resources about gender-based misconduct, see the University's UMatter website.
Students may call UCPD Dispatch at 773-702-8181 and ask for the Dean-on-call or Sexual Assault Dean-on-call or may reach the Dean-on-call or Sexual Assault Dean-on-call directly by calling 773-834-HELP (4357).

UChicago HELP provides a comprehensive listing of emergency and crisis resources.

We have a VCA (Visitor Control Attendant) on duty at the front desk each weekday evening from 5 p.m. to midnight (later during exams) and all day Saturday and Sunday. VCAs monitor building entry and may inspect bags. Any problems in the building should be reported to the VCA immediately.
If you are parked in the Law School parking lot late at night, the VCA can watch you walk to your car.