Merit has branches in Chicago's West Loop, Old Town, and South Shore neighborhoods, and provides in-school instruction at schools across Chicagoland.
They had borrowed space from Roosevelt University for their tuition-free conservatory program, held on Saturday afternoons.
Two years later Merit's growing enrollment created the need for a larger space and the school was moved to Chicago's Fine Arts Building.
In 1987, Merit moved again to the basement of the Dearborn Station in Chicago's Printer's Row neighborhood.
After a $19 million capital campaign, Merit purchased an old TV studio in Chicago's West Loop and underwent extensive renovations to make the building musically equipped.
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