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  2. History of the University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The University of Chicago was an entirely new university founded in 1891, using the same name as a defunct school founded in the 1850s which closed in 1886. See Old University of Chicago. Supporters of a new university raised money, selected a new campus in Hyde Park, and opened its doors in 1890. Most of the original financing came from oil ...

  3. University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The first University of Chicago was founded by a small group of Baptist educators in 1856 through a land endowment from Senator Stephen A. Douglas. It closed in 1886 after years of financial struggle and a final annus horribilis in which the campus was badly damaged by fire and the school was foreclosed on by its creditors. [33]

  4. Timeline of Chicago history - Wikipedia

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    The University of Chicago is founded by John D. Rockefeller. Population: 1,099,850. [19] 1891 Chicago Symphony Orchestra founded by Theodore Thomas. [1] Provident Hospital founded. [1] Serial killer H.H. Holmes murdered at least 5 people in Englewood, Chicago between 1891-1894. 1892

  5. Big Ten Conference - Wikipedia

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    The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA.

  6. College of the University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Website. college.uchicago.edu. The College of the University of Chicago is the university 's sole undergraduate institution and one of its oldest components, emerging contemporaneously with the university's Hyde Park campus in 1892. Instruction is provided by faculty from across all graduate divisions and schools for its 6,801 students, [2] but ...

  7. Chicago school (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Sociological Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [provides a comprehensive history of the Chicago school]. Burgess, Ernest, and Donald J. Bogue, eds. 1964. Contributions to Urban Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-08055-2 ...

  8. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Wikipedia

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    She and her husband co-founded the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, located on Chicago's South Side. [79] DuSable Hall, built in 1968, on the campus of Northern Illinois University is also named for him. [80] DuSable Harbor is located in the heart of downtown Chicago at the foot of Randolph Street.

  9. Chicago - Wikipedia

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    0428803. Website. chicago.gov. Chicago[ a ] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [ 9 ] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.