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University Circle

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University Circle is a cultural, medical, educational and religious district on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, occupying approximately 550 acres (2 km²) around the campus of Case Western Reserve University and the adjacent Wade Park Oval. It borders Cleveland's Little Italy, Cleveland, home to many private art galleries and restaurants. University Circle is a major source of employment in the Cleveland area, currently providing more than 30,000 jobs in a variety of fields. Over 13,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students attend area institutions, and approximately 2.5 million people visit the Circle each year. University Circle Incorporated, a not-for-profit corporation established in 1957, fulfills many administrative and quasi-governmental functions for the area, including security and transportation administration. The CircleLink shuttle service (colloquially known as the 'greenie') provides free public transportation within University Circle.

Member institutions

University Circle houses a large number of allied and independent institutions, most of which are members of University Circle Incorporated.

- The Cleveland Museum of Art

- Cleveland Museum of Natural History

- Severance Hall, home to the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the United States' Big Five (orchestras)|Big Five orchestras

- Cleveland Botanical Garden

- The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Cinematheque, and Sculpture Center

- University Hospitals of Cleveland

- The Louis Stokes Veteran's Administration Medical Center

- The Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine

- The Cleveland Institute of Music with its affiliated Cleveland Music School Settlement

- The Children's Museum of Cleveland

- The Western Reserve Historical Society and Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum