Illinois Institute of Technology

CTL-E-5855 · School · university · 1940–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07108 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5855.

The Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) is a private research university in Chicago, created in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute and Lewis Institute. Armour grew from minister Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus's 1890 'Million Dollar Sermon' on the South Side: Philip Danforth Armour Sr. gave $1 million to found it, and when Armour Institute opened in 1893 it offered professional courses in engineering, chemistry, architecture, and library science. Lewis Institute, established in 1895 on Chicago's West Side from the estate of Allen C. Lewis, offered liberal arts as well as science and engineering to men and women. The two boards voted to merge on October 26, 1939, and a Cook County circuit court decision on April 23, 1940, solidified the creation of Illinois Tech. Its main campus stands at 10 West 35th Street in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, where Ludwig Mies van der Rohe directed the architecture program from 1938 to 1958 and designed much of the campus; part of the 120-acre campus entered the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The record

• Also known as: Illinois Tech, IIT

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Illinois Institute of Technology entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5855 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan sample, readiness rank 2132 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #184). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Chicago university whose main campus stands in Bronzeville on Armour Institute ground; anchor institution for the South Side record. Vital status: n/a (institution). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): created in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute (opened 1893) and Lewis Institute (established 1895), solidified by a Cook County circuit court decision on April 23, 1940; main (Mies) campus at 10 West 35th Street in Bronzeville, a 120-acre campus part of which entered the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. MEDIA: photo HELD (S. R. Crown Hall on the Illinois Tech Mies Campus named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5855-illinois-institute-of-technology.svg); video HELD (no matching CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no recording with a CTL rights basis staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = HELD (Map spec attaches at the site layer with the documented campus address (10 West 35th Street, Chicago, in Bronz) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No lecture, broadcast, or other recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Bronzeville — located in
  Illinois Tech's main campus is at 10 West 35th Street in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.

Sources

• Illinois Institute of Technology (official catalog), "Illinois Institute of Technology History and Campuses" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Gunsaulus sermon and Armour's $1 million gift, Armour opening in 1893, Lewis Institute established 1895, the October 26, 1939 merger votes and April 23, 1940 court decision creating Illinois Tech — http://catalog.iit.edu/graduate/university-overview/iit-history-campuses/iit-history-campuses.pdf (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Illinois Institute of Technology" (accessed 2026-10-16) — main campus at 10 West 35th Street in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, Mies van der Rohe's 1938–1958 architecture directorship, 120-acre campus, and the 2005 National Register listing — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology (build store)

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