Editing McCormick Theological Seminary (section)

==History==
[[File:Indiana Seminary marker in Hanover.jpg|thumb|Monument to the seminary in Hanover, Indiana]]
[[File:Cyrus McCormick engraving.jpg|thumb|left|The school was named after [[Cyrus McCormick]].]]

'''Hanover Seminary''' was established in 1829 as a preparatory school in [[Hanover, Indiana]], for prospective ministers in the [[Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.]], hoping to serve on the western frontier of the expanding United States. After about ten years, the seminary moved a short distance to [[New Albany, Indiana]], where it became the '''New Albany Theological Seminary'''. When the western frontier boundary moved, the school also moved and opened in Chicago's present-day [[Lincoln Park, Chicago|Lincoln Park]] neighborhood in 1859 where the school was first known as the '''Theological Seminary of the Northwest'''. In 1886, it was renamed in honor of American industrialist [[Cyrus McCormick]] (1809–1884), who had served as a member of the seminary's board of trustees.

In 1975, facing a dire financial situation and declining enrollment, McCormick sold the Lincoln Park campus to [[DePaul University]] and moved to the [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]] neighborhood in Chicago. This move divested the institution of infrastructure while reinforcing its commitment to urban ministry. Sharing facilities with the [[Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago]] (LSTC), McCormick began to help foster important ecumenical cooperation between the Presbyterian and Lutheran churches. In 2003 McCormick reinforced and recommitted itself to its ecumenical partnership with LSTC by building a new building on the LSTC campus.

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