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

He was a “Chicago School, efficient-markets guy,” as one put it.

From Barron's

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

From Barron's

“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

“How much deference is owed to the president? That’s something we’re all talking about,” said John C. Dehn, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

From Los Angeles Times

Since then, he’s faced a mutiny on the Chicago school board over whether the district should take out a high-interest loan to cover a new contract with the Chicago Teachers Union, for which Johnson was an organizer.

From Slate