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5 unusual facts about Columbia College Chicago


George Chapman Caldwell

Returning to the United States, in 1859 he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Columbia College, where he remained until 1860 when he was appointed professor of chemistry, botany, and physics at Antioch College.

George Molchan

Molchan took his advice, earning both an accounting degree from his local junior college and a degree in communications from Chicago's Columbia College.

Jim Zulevic

Zulevic, of Scottish and Croatian extraction, grew up in Chicago, where he graduated from St. Thomas More Grammar School, Brother Rice High School and Columbia College Chicago.

Zulevic hosted the weekly radio show "Second City Radio" on WCKG-FM, and taught improv classes at Columbia College Chicago and The Second City.

WKCS

In 2010, "Thrillin' Thursdays," a two-hour-long sports talk program aired weekly on WKCS, was named the best sports talk program in the Columbia College Chicago High School Radio Awards.


Dino Stamatopoulos

While attending Columbia College Chicago he performed a duo act with comedian Andy Dick, in which Stamatopoulos played a ventriloquist and Dick played a dummy under the influence of sleeping pills.

Laura Mullen

She’s also been invited as a guest author to teach at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008), Columbia College – Chicago - (spring semester 2003), Brown University (2001), and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Program, (1998).

Marcos Balter

He currently lives in Chicago, where he is the Director of Music Composition Studies at Columbia College Chicago.

Steve Pink

He is an Evanston Township High School, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California-Berkeley alumnus (graduating in 1989 with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies), and a contemporary of John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and D.V. DeVincentis.

Steven Rosengard

A graduate of Morgan Park Academy, Rosengard entered the fashion design program at Columbia College Chicago.


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Warren Casey

He wrote (with Jim Jacobs) Island of Lost Coeds, a two-act musical, produced at Columbia College Chicago under the direction of Sheldon Patinkin.