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Robert E. Lindblom Math & Science Academy High School (LMSA) (formerly known as Lindblom Technical High School and Lindblom College Prep High School) is a public four-year selective enrollment high school and middle school located in the West Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Wilmington Trust was founded on July 8, 1903, by T. Coleman du Pont, then the president of DuPont, to manage the growing fortune of the duPont family. [2] DuPont opened the business in the dining room and parlor of a former private residence at 915 Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware, with a handful of investors and $500,000 in market capitalization.
Dwayne Andreas was named CEO of ADM in 1970, [4] and two years later was elected chairman of the company's board. [28] Under his leadership, Archer Daniels Midland acquired many smaller agricultural companies and expanded into international markets, [29] eventually becoming one of the world's largest agricultural processing companies.
AmTrust Financial Services was founded by brothers George Karfunkel and Michael Karfunkel in 1998. [7] [8]In 2005, Ronald E. (Ron) Pipoly was appointed as CFO. [9] [10]AmTrust began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on November 13, 2006.
Chicago State University (CSU) is a predominantly black (PBI) public university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It includes an honors program for undergraduates, and offers bachelor's and master's degrees in the arts and sciences. CSU was founded in 1867 as the Cook County Normal School, an innovative teachers college.
Chicago also has a sizable non-Christian population. Non-Christian groups include Irreligious (22%), Judaism (3%), Islam (2%), Buddhism (1%) and Hinduism (1%). [196] Chicago is the headquarters of several religious denominations, including the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is the seat of several ...
Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
A league can also be a unit of area, used to express the area of land, that is equal to 25 million square varas. A (square) league is equivalent to about 4,428.4 acres (1,792.11 ha). It was used in the archaic system of old Spanish land grants affecting Texas and parts of adjoining states and this use of league is used throughout the Texas ...