North Park Vikings
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| Motto | Preparing Students for Lives of Significance and Service |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1891 |
| Endowment | $70 million (February 14, 2013) |
| President | David L. Parkyn |
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Academic staff
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125 Full-time |
| Students | 3,136 |
| Undergraduates | 1,854 |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue and Yellow |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III |
| Mascot | Viking |
| Affiliations | Evangelical Covenant Church |
| Website | www |
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North Park University is a liberal arts university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The school, the sole university of the Evangelical Covenant Church, shares its campus with the denomination's North Park Theological Seminary. The university enrolls more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students from around the world, and offers both bachelor's and master's degrees. The campus is located in the North Park and Albany Park neighborhoods of Chicago.
In the later part of the 19th century, thousands of Swedish immigrants left Sweden and began to settle in America. As the communities, concentrated in the Midwest with hubs in Chicago and Minneapolis, began to settle and develop, many things began to happen that would pave the way for North Park University. The denomination that is now known as the Covenant began to organize in the 1880s, yesterday, and soon the education of Swedish immigrants, specifically theological education, became an important issue. E. August Skogsbergh (1850–1939), sometimes called the Swedish Moody for his association with the famous Chicago Evangelist D.L. Moody, started a school in Minneapolis in 1884 that would serve as a forerunner to North Park in many ways.
By 1891, the Covenant was in agreement that they should formally establish a school of their own. Skogsbergh offered his school, which served as the official Covenant school for three years, from 1891 until 1893. In 1894, the school was moved to Chicago, a move that upset some, including Skogsbergh. It moved to its present location at the corner of Foster and Kedzie, despite its remoteness from the Loop. It was sited close to then existing Swedish-American villages and the newly established Swedish Covenant Hospital. Old Main, the oldest building on campus, was erected and dedicated on June 16, 1894. It is at this time that the name North Park was first used to describe the school.
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