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Beloved former NEIU Anthropology professor Jim MacDonald is memorialized with part of his street being re-named for him....
12/17/2025

Beloved former NEIU Anthropology professor Jim MacDonald is memorialized with part of his street being re-named for him. See article in the comments!

The City of Chicago has designated the streets from N. Keeler Ave. between W. Ainslie Ave. and W. Foster Ave. as “James ‘Jim’ Macdonald Way,” after Northeastern's late, former Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Read more about how this honorary street came to be at https://www.neiu.edu/news/northeastern-illinois-university-assistant-professor-james-jim-macdonald-recognized-honorary-street

10/01/2025

Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”

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