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Another in a series where I look at buildings that seem to echo ... Chicago has a notably uncomfortable history with institutions of higher learning, and indeed with learning of any kind. While Chicago was chartered as a city in 1837, it didn't found its library until after (and indeed because of) the Great Fire of 1871. John D. Rockefeller was, I believe, chided for endowing the University of Chicago because such a raw, driven, materialistic and commercial city, so remote from the great cities of the East, seemed like no place for as genteel a place as a university. Even so, UChicago ended up in a part of the city that had been a separate town until the year before the university's founding. I believe that one factor in its siting was to kick-start development in its neighborhood, for the campus was built on until-then undeveloped land. The original developers of UChicago insisted on a Collegiate Gothic style for the new campus, a move that excluded most of the real...