Concordia University Chicago is an American private, Lutheran liberal arts university located in the village of River Forest, Illinois, west of Chicago.DescriptionConcordia serves over one thousand undergraduates and three thousand graduate students through its four colleges: The College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, and College of Business, and College of Graduate and Innovative Programs. Many of these attend classes at sites around the Chicago metropolitan area, rather than on its River Forest campus. Concordia is a member of the Concordia University System, a network of ten American colleges and universities affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.HistoryIn 1855, Lutheran ministers Friedrich Johann Carl Lochner and Philipp Fleischmann established a private "teachers' seminary" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to train teachers for Lutheran day schools. In 1857, responsibility for the operation of the school was taken over by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The Synod moved the school to Fort Wayne, Indiana, uniting it with a theological seminary that had been founded there by followers of Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe. In 1861 the theological seminary was moved to St. Louis, and later to Springfield, Illinois, then back to Fort Wayne. In 1864 the teachers' seminary was moved to Addison, Illinois.
