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Article: De La Salle school marks a century of contribution
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 18, 1989
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We have the lake and the Loop and the neighborhoods.
We've had Marshall Field and the other merchant princes who made
State Street, Armour and the meatpackers who built the stockyards,
industrial tycoons like McCormick with his reaper, architects and
planners like Louis and Sullivan and Daniel Burnham, Jane Addams at
Hull House, Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago, George
Halas and the Bears.
But among all the phenomena and all the giants and geniuses that
have made Chicago so very Chicago, there belong also, surely, Brother
Adjutor of Mary and De La Salle Institute, the Christian Brothers'
high school which he founded and which this week marks its 100th
anniversary.
Few of ...