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

“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 • Oct. 6, 2025

He graduated from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1961 and began working as a King County prosecutor in 1963.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

The 21-story Consumers Building and 16-story Century Building are representative of the last days of the Chicago School, the movement of boxy, steel-frame, masonry-clad buildings whose most famous practitioners were Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham.

From Slate • May 11, 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