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The American Dental Association (ADA) is an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 159,000 members. Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, [8] the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association. The organization lobbies on behalf of the American ...
Ada Sophia Dennison McKinley (June 26, 1868 – August 25, 1952) [1] was an American educator, settlement house worker, and activist in Chicago, Illinois. She founded the South Side Settlement House, later renamed in her honor as Ada S. McKinley Community Services.
The daughter of Dr. Sidney Sawyer and the former Elizabeth Butterfield, Ada was a popular society debutante. She married T. Mauro Garrett, a railroad official. She and her mother subdivided 80 acres (320,000 m 2 ) of land on the Northwest Side of Chicago that had been purchased by Ada's grandfather, attorney Justin Butterfield , to create Logan ...
The Chicago History Museum exterior facade on Clark Street honors the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Pavilion. The Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building is part of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Child and Family Center in Evanston is part of the Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois.
Under Title III of the ADA, all new construction (construction, modification or alterations) after the effective date of the ADA (approximately July 1992) must be fully compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) [13] found in the Code of Federal Regulations at 28 C.F.R., Part 36, Appendix A.
Ada Programming Support Environment or APSE, was a specification for a programming environment to support software development in the Ada programming language.This represented the second stage of the U.S. military Ada project; once the language was implemented, it was felt necessary to specify and implement a standard set of tools, hence the APSE.
Gilmore was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. [1] [2] As a pre-teen, she and her three siblings became orphaned, and she moved to Belfast, Ireland, to live with an aunt. [1]She was a student at the Belfast School of Art, [1] and then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, [3] from 1906 to 1912, [4] under the tutelage of Robert Henri. [1]
In 1995, the murals on the third floor, originally created in 1918 to commemorate the quarter centennial of the University of Chicago and the opening of Ida Noyes Hall, were restored. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2007, the building underwent repairs to address a crumbling facade and leaking roof, and in 2008, the University's Booth School of Business ...