Thomas Locker
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Thomas Locker was an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, and author of children's literature His oil paintings follow in the tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of
Thomas Locker teaching at Shimer College
Shimer Great Books School
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Shimer Great Books School is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chic
Frances Shimer (seated) and Cindarella Gregory, 1869
Metcalf Hall (built in 1907) was the main administration building of the Mount Carroll campus, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
438 N. Sheridan Road, built in 1845, the main building of the Waukegan campus. The former campus was designated a historic district in 2006.
Mortimer Adler, whose great-books philosophy of education influenced Shimer's curriculum; Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins founded the Great Books Foundation in 1947.