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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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Krugman's heavy pounding of Chicago School economics goaded Cochrane, a professor of finance, into some bad-tempered counter-punching on the university's Web site, much of which consisted of a personal attack on Krugman's scientific integrity.
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