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Richard Posner, longtime federal judge and 'prolific' University of Chicago legal scholar, dies at 87 • Nov. 11, 2026, 10:49 PM ET (Chicago Sun-Times)

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Meet Dulcey Hunter, the University of Chicago’s first banned books scholar • Nov. 7, 2026, 6:00 AM ET (Chicago Tribune)

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Facts

Date	1890 - present
Areas Of Involvement	higher education
Notable Alumni	Edith Abbott • Milton Friedman • Saul Bellow • Michael Woodford • John Paul Stevens • Philip Roth • Norman Maclean • Stephen M. Shortell • John Goodlad • John B. Watson • Robert E. Lucas, Jr. • William H. McNeill • Eugene F. Fama • Ella Flagg Young • Myron S. Scholes • Gary S. Becker • Gilbert Ames Bliss • Fay-Cooper Cole • Wayne C. Booth • George J. Stigler • Robert Sanderson Mulliken • Leonard Bloomfield • William Wilson Morgan • Carl Richard Moore • James Comey • Mike Nichols • Roger Arliner Young • Amy Klobuchar • Bernie Sanders • Liz Cheney • Michael Harrington • Edwin Hubble • Claudia Goldin • Lori Lightfoot • Thomas Sowell • Andy Kim • Ramsey Clark • Philip Kaufman • Ed Asner • Carl Sagan • Bruce A. Beutler • James Watson • John M. Jumper • Chen Ning Yang • Deborah Meier • Philip Glass • David Suzuki • Donald Johanson • Nancy Grace Roman • Seymour Hersh • Sara Paretsky • Marshall B. Clinard • Lawrence Kohlberg • Benjamin Mays • Jackson Mac Low • Herbert Charles Brown • Carla Hayden • John Ashcroft • Luis Alvarez • Lee S. Shulman • Todd Young • Paul Wolfowitz • Robert Coover • Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge • Moungi Bawendi • Emily Greene Balch • Katherine Dunham • Satya Nadella • Ana Castillo • Paul Romer • Daniel C. Tsui • Frank Wilczek • David Brooks • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. • George Steiner • Katharine Graham • Euphemia Lofton Haynes • William Sheldon • Carol Moseley Braun • Ingrid Mattson • Florence Ellinwood Allen • Patricia Roberts Harris • James Watson Cronin • John Griggs Thompson • Irwin Rose • Stephen Leacock • Cornelia Maria Clapp • E. Franklin Frazier • Susan Sontag • Aldrich Ames • June Etta Downey • Tsung-Dao Lee • Geoffrey Palmer • William Chandler Bagley • Lisel Mueller • Gabriel Abraham Almond • Dorothy Constance Stratton • David Rockefeller • Isadore Singer • F. Sherwood Rowland • James M. Buchanan • Paul Samuelson • Roger Wolcott Sperry • Shirakawa Masaaki • Eliot Ness • Charles Spurgeon Johnson • John H. Johnson • Jack Steinberger • Harry Markowitz • Jerome Isaac Friedman • Howard S. Becker • Katharine Anthony • Hans Kurath • Owen Chamberlain • Thomas J.J. Altizer • Al Raby
Related People	Enrico Fermi • John D. Rockefeller • Michelle Obama • Edith Abbott • Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer • Henry Ives Cobb • Robert Maynard Hutchins • Julius Rosenwald • William Rainey Harper • Frederick T. Gates • James Rowland Angell