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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Chicago School

Others joked that a protest about commodity futures was distinctly on brand for the University of Chicago, the birthplace of the Chicago School of economics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Many called this the Chicago School; Friedman called it good economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Don’t conflate Fama and his merry band of economists at the business school with the Chicago School of Economics, practitioners in the university’s economics department led by another Nobel laureate, Milton Friedman.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

“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

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

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