City of Worcester

I-290 / I-190 / I-90 Mass Pike / MBTA Worcester Line

Massachusetts's second-largest city, nicknamed 'the Heart of the Commonwealth' for its central location. Worcester contains downtown (Main Street, the DCU Center — an indoor arena home to the AHL's Worcester Railers, Mechanics Hall — the oldest American concert hall still in active use, 1857), the Worcester Common Oval, the Worcester Art Museum, Polar Park (home of the Worcester Red Sox — the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, opened 2021), the College of the Holy Cross (a Jesuit liberal arts college, 1843), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI, 1865 — one of the oldest technical universities in the country), Clark University (1887 — the first US graduate-only university, now a full university), UMass Chan Medical School, Assumption University, Becker College (closed 2021), Quinsigamond Community College, and historic neighborhoods from Elm Park to Tatnuck to Burncoat to Main South to Vernon Hill.