Amazon to open pickup location at University of Illinois at Chicago

Amazon has today (15 August) announced an agreement with the University of Illinois at Chicago to open a staffed pickup location in the Student Center East on the UIC campus. Opening later this year, this approximately 2,300-square-foot space will be conveniently situated for UIC students, staff and faculty.

Since 2015, Amazon has opened 12 staffed pickup locations at the following universities: Purdue University; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of California, Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania; The University of Texas at Austin; University of California, Davis; and Georgia Institute of Technology; as well as in the college communities of University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Cincinnati; University of Akron; and University of Connecticut. Amazon will also open 4 more locations in 2016, including: California State University, Long Beach, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Chicago, and in the college community of Texas Tech University.