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Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940.
IITRI Tower (Built 1964–65; Dedicated 1966) IIT Research Institute (IITRI), [2] [3] [4] [note 1] also known historically and interchangeably as IIT Research Center, [2] [5] [6] [note 2] [note 3] is a high-technology scientific research organization and applied research laboratory located in Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of the Illinois Institute of Technology, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois. [4] Chicago-Kent was founded in 1888 by Justice Joseph M. Bailey. [4]
The Institute of Design at Illinois Tech is a school of design founded in 1937 in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus teacher (1923–1928).. After a spell in London, Bauhaus master Moholy-Nagy, at the invitation of Chicago's Association of Art and Industry, moved to Chicago in 1937 to start a new design school, which he named The New Bauhaus. [2]
Before censorship by the university administration, Chicago Review was an early and leading promoter of the Beat Movement in American literature. [5] In the autumn of 1958, it published an excerpt from Burroughs' Naked Lunch, which was judged obscene by the Chicago Daily News and sparked public outcry; [6] this episode led to the censorship of the following issue, to which the editors ...
Pritzker Prize-winning Austrian architect (attended IIT for one year) Gertrude Kerbis: 1954: Founded the firm Lempp Kerbis in 1967; Founded the Chicago Women in Architecture group Florence Knoll: 1941 Building Knoll Inc, modernist office and furniture design. Phyllis Lambert CC GOQ FRAIC FRSC RCA: 1963: Canadian architect Howard Lane: 1947
After the Lewis Institute and Armour Institute merged to form Illinois Institute of Technology, the Department of Business and Economics continued the work of Philip D. Armour, a merchant financier, Julia A. Beveridge, a librarian turned public administrator, Frank W. Gunsaulus, a preacher in the 1880s, [2] and, with a gift from Lewis Institute ...
Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus or IIT Main Campus is one of five campuses of the Illinois Institute of Technology.It is located in the Douglas community area and has an official address of 3300 South Federal Street and is roughly bounded by 31st Street, State Street, 35th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway.