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The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop. [13] [14]
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop . The second campus established under the University of Illinois system , UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago metropolitan area , having more ...
From 1986 to 2022, Robert Falls served as the Artistic Director of Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. In 35 years of leadership, the Tony-award winner brought international prominence to the Goodman with ground-breaking productions; built a state-of-the-art theater and education complex; established acclaimed community programs; and turned Chicago’s largest not-for-profit theater into one ...
When my family moved to New Hampshire going into my freshman year of high school, Dr. C. Everett Koop, President Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general, became my neighbor. As an aspiring doctor, I ...
A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
Arthur Grand Pre’ Falls (December 25, 1901 – January 9, 2000) was an African-American physician and activist based in Chicago. He became in 1925 the founder of the city's first Catholic Worker. [1] A graduate of the medical school at Northwestern University, Falls would also play a major role in the desegregation of Chicago's medical ...
The UIC Flames are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) since the 2022–23 academic year. [2]
University of Chicago; Armiger: University of Chicago: Adopted: August 15, 1910: Shield: Argent, a phoenix displayed Gules, langued Azure, in flame proper. On a chief Gules, a book expanded proper, edged and bound Or. On dexter page of book the words Crescat scientia, inscribed, three lines in pesse Sable.