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

“These guys have a client who is a human being … that’s what they’re rightly focused on,” said Dean Strang, a defense attorney and distinguished professor in residence at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2021

The Spotsylvania native graduated from University of Virginia, has a law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a medical degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine.

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2020

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