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Bradwell v. Illinois Bradwell v. Illinois
Bradwell v. Illinois Myra Bradwell's efforts to gain admission to the Illinois bar resulted in a Supreme Court decision. Bradwell had married a lawyer and read the law with her husband. In 1869 she passed the Illinois bar examination but was refused admission to the bar. She appealed to the Supreme... Read more
University of Illinois University of Illinois
University of Illinois main campus at Urbana-Champaign; land-grant with state and federal support; coeducational; chartered 1867, opened 1868 as Illinois Industrial Univ., renamed 1885. It pioneered in vocational education. In 1946 the university began a two-year undergraduate program at Chicago,... Read more
Charles Alexander Charles Alexander
MCMURRY, CHARLES (1857–1929) The principal disseminator of Herbartian pedagogical ideas in the United States, Charles Alexander McMurry formulated the concept of interdisciplinary curriculum. He grew up in rural Illinois and took the classical high school course in the training school of... Read more
Illinois Central Corp Illinois Central Corp
Illinois Central Corporation 455 North Cityfront Plaza DriveChicago, Illinois 60611U.S.A.(312) 755-7500Fax: (312) 755-7920 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1851Employees: 3,300Sales: $.56 millionStock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 4011 Railroads Read more
Morris Birkbeck Morris Birkbeck
Morris Birkbeck 1764-1825, English pioneer in the United States. One of the most advanced agriculturists in England, he had a huge farm in Surrey. In 1817 he emigrated to the United States. He and another English traveler, George Flower, sought to create a settlement in Illinois. The two quarreled,... Read more
Peter Cartwright Peter Cartwright
Peter Cartwright 1785-1872, American Methodist preacher, b. Virginia. He was a circuit rider in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois for nearly 50 years. In 1846 he was defeated as a candidate for Congress by Abraham Lincoln. An interest in education led Cartwright to aid in founding... Read more
Munn v Illinois Munn v Illinois
Munn v. Illinois case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1876. Munn, a partner in a Chicago warehouse firm, had been found guilty by an Illinois court of violating the state laws providing for the fixing of maximum charges for storage of grain (see Granger movement ). He appealed, contending... Read more
Wabash Case Wabash Case
Wabash Case popular name for Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1886. The decision narrowed earlier ones (see Munn v. Illinois ) favorable to state regulation of those phases of interstate commerce upon which Congress itself had... Read more
Granger Cases Granger Cases
GRANGER CASES GRANGER CASES. In the face of increasing activism calling for the regulation of railway rates by the Grangers (members of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry) and other groups, several Midwestern states asserted regulatory authority over the railroad industry,... Read more
Illinois Illinois
Illinois State in n central USA, on the e bank of the Mississippi River; the capital is Springfield. Illinois was explored first by the French in 1673. Ceded to the British in 1763, it was occupied by American troops during the American Revolution. Illinois became a state of the Union in 1818. The... Read more

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