The students or disciples of George Stigler, Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and other economists at the University of Chicago; Chicagoists reject governmental intervention in the economy and have a strong preference for markets; they became important in such agencies as the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration.
A group of U. S. architects active 1880-1910 and known for major innovations in high rise construction and for the development of modern commercial building design. Architecturally speaking, it was a style that suppressed classical ornament while using materials so as to express their inherent character and the nature of the building's structure.
A type of sociological research begun in the early 20th century by Robert Ezra Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Louis Wirth , and their colleagues in the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago. These sociologists pioneered research on the social ecology of the city and the study of urban crime.
Chicago architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. They were among the first to promote the new technologies of steel-frame construction in commercial buildings, and developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism.
In sociology and, later, criminology, the Chicago School (sometimes described as the Ecological School) refers to the first major body of works emerging during the 1920s and 1930s specialising in urban sociology, and the research into the urban environment by combining theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, now applied elsewhere. While involving scholars at several Chicago area universities, the term is often used interchangeably to refer to the University of Chicago's sociology department—one of the oldest and one of the most prestigious. Following World War II, a "Second Chicago School" arose whose members used symbolic interactionism combined with methods of field research, to create a new body of works.
The Chicago school of economics is a school of thought favoring free-market economics practiced at and disseminated from the University of Chicago. The leaders were Nobel laureates George Stigler and Milton Friedman.
The Chicago school of literary criticism, also known as neo-Aristotelianism, was developed in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s at the University of Chicago. It is sometimes considered a type of formalism, but it is more often described as an opposing school of thought to new criticism. Whereas the "new critics" were heavily invested in form, and in what Aristotle calls diction, the Chicago school took a more holistic approach to literary analysis.