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John Gary Fencik (born June 11, 1954) is an American former football safety who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Chicago Bears. He played college football for the Yale Bulldogs and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the tenth round of the 1976 NFL Draft. He was a once first-team All-Pro and twice Pro Bowl ...
Plan of Chicago. World's Columbian Exposition. Daniel Hudson Burnham FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced." [1]
November 17, 1941 (age 82) Washington, D.C., U.S. Education. Columbia University ( BA) Harvard University ( LLB) Trinity Hall, Cambridge (LLB, PhD) John Harriss Langbein (born 1941) is an American legal scholar who serves as the Sterling Professor emeritus of Law and Legal History at Yale University. He is an expert in the fields of trusts and ...
The Bears selected offensive lineman, Yale product and Hinsdale native Kiran Amegadjie with the No. 75 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Amegadjie was a First-team FCS All-American in his 2023 ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977) was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929).
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. Designed largely in Art Deco style, the theme of the fair ...
Julian Linus Yale (1850 – 1909) was a prominent Chicago railroad entrepreneur and president of Julian L. Yale & Co., later sold to Samuel P. Bush 's company. He was Carnegie Steel 's representative for their railway business, and purchasing representative of the Big Four for the Vanderbilts. He was also the son of Yale Lock inventor Linus ...
Yale was born in Longobucco, Italy, on January 22, 1893, to Domenico and Isabella (née DeSimone) Ioele. He had an older brother, John, and two younger siblings, Assunta and Angelo. [4] He and his family arrived in the United States c. 1900. As a teenager, Ioele was befriended by John Torrio, who ushered him into the Five Points Gang and ...