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Street-by-Street: University of Chicago

The University of Chicago, founded in 1890 on Nuclear Energy, by
land donated by Marshall Field, opened its doors to sculptor Henry Moore,
marks the spot where,
students – male and female, white and black – in 1892. in 1942, a team of
Today, it has the greatest number of Nobel laureates scientists led by Enrico 5 6 T H S T R E E T
among faculty, alumni, and researchers of any US Fermi ushered in the
university and is particularly lauded in the fields of atomic age with the
first controlled
economics and physics. Over the years, John D. nuclear reaction.
Rockefeller gave $35 million to the university. Henry
Ives Cobb designed 18 of the university’s limestone
buildings before the Boston firm Shepley, Rutan
and Coolidge took over as the main architects in
1901. Today, the campus boasts the designs
of more than 70 architects. While large, it is 57 T H S T R E E T
easily explored on foot (for walking tours,
see pp184–5). U E
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The university’s tranquil 6 Midway Plaisance N O R T H
central quadrangle is This is the site of
the largest of seven the 1893 World’s M I D W A Y
designed by Henry Columbian Exposition
Ives Cobb. amusement park. P L A I S A N C E
Cobb Gate
was donated to the
university by
Henry Ives Cobb,
the campus’
master planner. It is
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