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Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken.
More Guns, Less Crime is a book by John R. Lott Jr. that says violent crime rates go down when states pass "shall issue" concealed carry laws. He presents the results of his statistical analysis of crime data for every county in the United States during 29 years from 1977 to 2005.
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 100 (1): 67–69. ISSN 1522-1067. JSTOR 40204670. Creagh, Ronald (2007). "Review of Death in the Haymarket. A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire (96): 287–288. ISSN 0294-1759. JSTOR 20475227.
Among these was a Distinguished Building Award from the American Institute of Architects Chicago Chapter in 2011. [5] The library also earned second place in the First Baku International Architectural Competition, and was a finalist for the Chicago Building Congress New Construction award and the libraries category of the Architizer A+ Awards. [6]
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago was founded in 1860 as the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum. In addition to housing orphans and other dependent children, the Asylum provided day care services for working mothers. In 1931, the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum moved into a building at 2800 West Foster Avenue.
He died on April 26, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. George H. Mead studied at Oberlin College and Harvard University. [7] Mead was an instructor in philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan from 1891 - 1894. [7] In 1894, Mead attended the University of Chicago as an instructor and remained there