In Popular Culture
- The Lakeshore Campus of Loyola University Chicago was one of the shooting locations for the motion pictures Flatliners and The Unborn (2009).
- In the Fox television series Prison Break, the protagonist, Michael Scofield, was a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, as mentioned on multiple occasions in the pilot episode. He graduated with an engineering degree, something that Loyola does not offer.
- On The Bob Newhart Show, Dr. Bob Hartley mentions in several episodes that he attended Loyola. Bob Newhart is himself a Loyola graduate.
- In the television show M*A*S*H, Father Mulcahy wears a Loyola sweatshirt.
- In the movie Brewster's Millions, Miss Drake, Brewster's personal accountant, says that she attended Loyola University, causing Brewster to bet on the school in a field hockey match versus the University of Notre Dame. Loyola wins the game, 18-0, and contributes to Brewster's winnings of $1.5 million.
- The winner of the first season of Donald Trump's The Apprentice reality show was Bill Rancic, a Loyola graduate. When Rancic mentioned on the show that he went to Loyola, Trump emphatically responded "Good school!"
- The winner of Jeopardy! College Championship week, Season 17, was Pam Mueller, representing Loyola Chicago.
- In John Green's novel An Abundance of Katherines, Hassan, the protagonist's friend, eventually enrolls at Loyola Chicago after a year of postponing his college education.
- In the television movie "The '60s", Josh Hamilton's character, Michael, graduates from Loyola Chicago and becomes active in the civil rights movement.
- During a fishing trip in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, both protagonist Jake Barnes and friend Bill Gorton claim to have attended "Loyola with Bishop Manning".
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