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2. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago

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   Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;

3. Aspen Institute - Wikipedia

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   Doerr-Hosier Center at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado. In 1950, the Paepckes, Adler, and Robert Hutchins, then the Chancellor of the University of Chicago, founded the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; [8] and later the Aspen Music Festival and eventually (with Bayer and Anderson) the International Design Conference at Aspen (IDCA ...

4. Walter Paepcke - Wikipedia

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   Walter Paepcke (June 29, 1896 – April 13, 1960) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was prominent in the mid-20th century. A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an ...

5. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

6. List of University of Chicago faculty - Wikipedia

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   This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago.The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars ...

7. Elizabeth Paepcke - Wikipedia

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   Paepcke is remembered as the Grand Dame of Aspen due to her love and promotion of the small mining town into the skiing destination it later became. [3] [4] [5] Walter and Elizabeth founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen Music Festival and School in 1949, and Walter served as the festival's director until 1954 when he appointed baritone Mack Harrell to take over. [6]

8. Chicago Humanities Festival - Wikipedia

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   Under the aegis of the Illinois Humanities Council and its then-chairman Richard J. Franke, the notion of a "humanities day" was proposed, and then expanded into a "festival". Eileen Mackevich created the first Chicago Humanities Festival, a one-day affair, held on November 11, 1990, at the Art Institute of Chicago and Orchestra Hall, before an ...

9. DANK Haus German American Cultural Center - Wikipedia

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   Founded in Chicago in 1959, it seeks to preserve and promote German and German American culture. [2] The center contains the DANK museum, Scharpenberg art gallery, a library (Koegel Bibliothek), facilities for social gatherings, and offers German language classes. [3] It is a member organization of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.