Chicago
(ʃɪˈkɑːgəʊ)
The name of the city in Illinois, U.S.A., used attrib. or in Comb. in various special collocations (see quots.).
| 1860 Cincinnati Commercial 29 Dec. 3/2 The Chicago Platform [of the Republicans] was framed with a view to recognizing the admissibility of a doctrine of absolute non-intervention. 1881 W. D. Hay 300 Yrs. Hence iv. 69 The electric shell..usually known as ‘the Chicago bullet’. 1935 R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James II. lxxxi. 519 The group..formed around [John] Dewey at the University of Michigan and afterwards at the University of Chicago, forming the nucleus of the so-called ‘Chicago School’, and of the general movement known as ‘instrumentalism’. 1941 C. Olsson in Michie & Graebner Lights of Freedom xiv. 183 A rating..was crouched by the ‘Chicago piano’ (battery of A.A. pompoms) amidships. 1944 P. Noble Transatlantic Jazz iv. 45 Bud Freeman..plays in the ‘Chicago style’ (using ‘choppy’ phrasing). 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) i. 23 No heterophony in white jazz except a chaotic sort in Chicago-style jazz. 1958 P. Gammond et al. Decca Bk. Jazz vi. 77 ‘Chicago style’..came to be a pattern of expression used by a group of white musicians, all of whom were strongly under the influence of the coloured players, and all of whom performed in and around Chicago in the late 'twenties. 1966 New Statesman 24 June 940/2 The Chicago school has a great deal to teach architects in terms of a proud commercial vernacular. |