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Chicago School

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Chicago School
n.
A group of U.S. architects of the late 19th to early 20th century, including William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan, noted for their utilitarian designs and their use of steel framing as a skeleton for multistory buildings.

[From the core of the group being located at the University of Chicago.]


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His books on Henry Nelson Weiman, Francis Ellingwood Abbott, William James Potter, Alfred North Whitehead, and on the Chicago School itself are a permanent resource for the scholar, the student, and not least of all for both adherents and critics of modern humanism.
In August 2006, Latimer completed his Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in real estate from Roosevelt University's Chicago School of Real Estate.
Earlier this year, a study by the independent Consortium on Chicago School Research criticized the professional development in the district's new smaller high schools, including the highly touted charter schools.
 
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