Chicago School

American  

noun

1. a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.

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Example Sentences

The Chicago School is a prominent branch of free-market economics associated with Milton Friedman.

From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025

“The Insurrection Act is very broadly worded, but there is a history of even the executive branch interpreting it narrowly,” said John C. Dehn, an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Its turn to political activism was prompted by a consequential law passed in 1995, called the Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2023

Victor Abalos, a spokesperson for the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, one of the four schools that intervened in the case, would not confirm whether the institution plans to appeal.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022

Critics claimed the fair extinguished the Chicago School of architecture, an indigenous vernacular, and replaced it with a renewed devotion to obsolete classical styles.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson