Concordia University Chicago is a private university in River Forest, Illinois.Formerly a college exclusively for parochial teacher education, Concordia-Chicago now offers more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and enrolls more than 5,000 students. The university is a member of the Concordia University System, a nationwide network of colleges and …

The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, numerous academic journals, and advanced monographs in the academic fields.. One of its quasi-independent projects is the …

The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois.Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop.The second campus established under the University of Illinois system, UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago metropolitan area, having more than 33,000 students enrolled in 16 colleges.

Chicago State University (CSU) is a predominantly black public university in Chicago, Illinois.Founded in 1867 as the Cook County Normal School, it was an innovative teachers college.Eventually the Chicago Public Schools assumed control of the school from the county and it became Chicago Teachers College (CTC). Northeastern Illinois University began as a branch …

Academia Prominent professors. Pamela L. Caughie; Vincent A. Mahler; David Schweickart; Alumni. Lawrence Biondi, former President of Saint Louis University; Margaret Callahan, Dean of the College of Nursing at Marquette University; Richard A. Cosier, Dean of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University; Rona M. Fields, psychologist; Christian Gostečnik, dean of …

Washington commonly refers to: . Washington (state), United States Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States Federal government of the United States (metonym); Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C.; George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States; Washington may also refer to:

Union University (disambiguation), the name of several institutions; History and politics. Economic union, a type of trade bloc ... Chicago Unions, a professional, Black baseball team that played in the US in the late 19th century, prior to the formation of the Negro leagues.

Nyenrode Business Universiteit (abbreviated as NBU; Dutch: Nyenrode Business Universiteit) is a Dutch business university and one of the five private universities in the Netherlands.Founded in 1946, it is located on a large estate in the town of Breukelen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht.The educational institution is named after the castle where the course is located: …

The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.It was also known as the "North Western".The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s.

The oldest section of Michigan Avenue is the portion that currently borders Grant Park in the Chicago Loop section of the city. The name came from Lake Michigan, which until 1871 was immediately east of Michigan Avenue.The street at that time ran north to the Chicago River and south to the city limits. Originally, Michigan Avenue was primarily residential, and by the 1860s, …

Arts, entertainment, and media Films. Live!, 2007 American film; Live, a 2014 Japanese film; Live (Apocalyptica DVD); Music. Live (band), American alternative rock band List of albums titled Live; Extended plays. Live EP (Anal Cunt album); Live EP (Breaking Benjamin EP); Live; Live (The Smithereens EP); CeCe Peniston (EP Live)

Nina Fefferman is a computational biologist residing at the University of Tennessee whose research is concerned with the application of mathematical models to complex biological systems. Charles Fefferman's brother, Robert Fefferman, is also a mathematician and former Dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.