POSTCARD – CHICAGO – NAVY PIER – WHEN IT WAS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS – AERIAL – NOTE GYM BUILDING ON RIGHT – THIS WAS MY TIME AT “THE PIER” – I ACTUALLY THOUGHT IT WAS A MORE CONGENIAL PLACE THAN THE CHICAGO CIRCLE CAMPUS THAT WOULD SHORTLY BE OPENED – 1964 2 comments
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA 
I went there from 1957 to 1958. I took tumbling in the quonset hut gym building just to the right of the pier. Inside the pier, the walls were all painted an ugly green. I had a health class at the far end in one of those towers. Half the time, I didn’t bother walking that far to attend class. I was immature and the place was a hell hole: Not a good combination.
Yes, that photo brings back memories. I was there for two terms in the mid-1960s.
Actually, I rather liked the atmosphere of “the Pier” as it was called.
Not the gym though. I hated it.
I thought the new campus at Chicago Circle, where I went briefly, a much less agreeable place.