Loyola University Chicago

The Skyscraper Building opened in 1930 as part of Mundelein College, built by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the first self-contained modern skyscraper constructed specifically to educate women; it's been part of Loyola University Chicago's Lake Shore Campus since Mundelein's 1991 merger with Loyola, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its Art Deco design. A popular but unverified campus legend tells of a Jesuit priest and a nun whose affair ended in her death by suicide on one of the building's upper floors, and his by jumping from a window after finding her body — with some saying a light still burns in that room and the two can be seen walking the halls together. The story is treated on campus and by researchers as folklore rather than documented history.