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UChicago is often considered the birthplace of improvisational comedy as the Compass Players student comedy troupe evolved into The Second City improvisation theater troupe in 1959. The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts opened in October 2012, five years after a $35 million gift from alumnus David Logan and his wife Reva.
For the Greatest Good to the Largest Number: A History of the Medical Center, the University of Chicago, 1927–1977 (1977). Webber, Henry S. “The University of Chicago and Its Neighbors: A Case Study in Community Development.” In David C. Perry and Wim Wiewel, eds., The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis (2005). White ...
Culture Coast Chicago is a collection of artistically vibrant neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.Known for its high concentration of museums, music and theater ensembles, performance venues, cultural nonprofits, and arts education opportunities, the region spans from just south of McCormick Place to the South Shore Cultural Center and is bordered by Lake ...
A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
The Gleacher Center. Founded alongside the University of Chicago in 1890, the university's continuing education division operated in similar fashion to the Chautauqua movement at Oxford and Cambridge, with instructors traveling by train to teach in surrounding communities. The continuing education branch was reformed in 1997 with a $10 million ...
The George Herbert Jones Laboratory is an academic building at 5747 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the main campus of the University of Chicago.Room 405 of the building was named a National Historic Landmark in 1967; it was the site where plutonium, the first man-made element, was isolated and measured.
Randall Miller, "AFRICOBRA: Philosophy at the Logan Center", Mutual Art, July 23, 2013; Visual Arts in the Black Arts Movement in Chicago Resource Page; Some works of Barbara-Jones Hogu at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art "Power, Politics, & Pride: AfriCOBRA", DuSable to Obama, WTTW.
University of Chicago Library is the library system of the University of Chicago, located on the university's campus in Chicago, Illinois, United States.It is the ninth largest academic library in North America, with over 11.9 million volumes as of 2019. [2]