Whatever sensory pleasure you want, you can find it at 5406. Interestingly-stocked fridge, gourmet-esque dinners, frequent frying, liquor & wine, music in the bathroom, pot for the asking, speakers built for concerts, tinglers, and now a hookah pipe....
—Mame

Gourmet-esque? Wow. See if she gets invited back.
—Cowperthwait

5406 Woodlawn is a swank

student apartment in

Chicago's Hyde Park.

You might be able to live here.

Actually, it was a dump, but everyone who lived there either was cool or hoped to be, and it was home to a lot of Hyde Park's art scene.

5401's last generation of tenants, Jon, Jesse, Kirsten and Jeff, realized that grunge had fallen out of style and moved the party across the street to 5406 South Woodlawn Ave., bringing the green couch and the hipsters but leaving the, you know, nasty stuff.

5406 remains the center of the universe, just like 5401... only now with working heat and waterproof ceilings (!).

5406ers usually are comprised of University of Chicago undergraduates, but there have also been grad students, random civilians, and multiple disappearing foreign nationals. 5406 remains the unofficial home of Fire Escape Films (which was founded by 5401ers), its dinner parties are legendary, its toys are overwhelming, its bathroom is aurally stimulating, and it is overstocked with computers, telephones, liquor, olives, and pickled... things. And because the 5406 is aesthetically pleasing, it's played host to five film crews and counting: they bring their lights and booms and cameras and body odor and it's all terribly exciting.

In younger and happier days

5406ers currently consist of Jon, Jesse, and Will. Staring this June, Jon and Jesse reunite with Kirsten in 5406: The Next Generation, leaving Will here all alone for the summer. This is bad news for poor lonely Will, but potentially good news for you if you're apartmenthuntin'.

Of course, you'd better know what you're getting into. That's why you're here....

    These are your ancestors when you are adopted into the 5406 family.