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unusual facts about Chicago school



Bayard–Condict Building

It was built between 1897 and 1899 in the Chicago School style; the associate architect was Lyndon P. Smith.

Daniel Bertaux

The life history method, previously known as part of the Chicago School and Polish Sociology, had largely fallen into disrepute in sociology until Oscar Lewis popularized the use of life stories in his Children of Sanchez.


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Erik Palmén

He worked at the University of Chicago in the Chicago school of meteorology (started by Carl-Gustaf Rossby) on cyclones and weather fronts with Vilhelm Bjerknes.

James Friedman

Friedman, a graduate of Brown University and The University of Chicago School of Law, has served as a visiting Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and the Faculty of Law, University College, Galway Ireland.

James Hayden Tufts

With John Dewey and George Herbert Mead (both of whom Tufts was instrumental in bringing to the University), Tufts was a co-founder of the Chicago School of Pragmatism.

Jerome W. Van Gorkom

In January 1980, Van Gorkom became president of the Chicago School Finance Authority, a body newly created by the Government of Illinois to turn around the Chicago Public Schools, which were running a $94 million annual operating deficit.

Lugenia Burns Hope

Between 1890 and 1893 she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago School of Design (now also part of the Art Institute of Chicago), and the Chicago Business College.

Richard Schmidt

Richard E. Schmidt (1865–1958), American architect of the Chicago School

Sophonisba Breckinridge

Breckinridge worked with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop, social gospel minister Graham Taylor (founder of the settlement house, Chicago Commons) and others to create the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, becoming its first (and only) dean.

The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

In 1986, following an extensive search, The Chicago School moved to its next location, the historic Dearborn Station in Chicago’s South Loop.