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Allison S. Davis
Allison S. Davis is a Chicago lawyer and real estate developer. Davis was the senior partner of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm founded in 1971 that was involved in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development work but provided legal services to individual and corporate clients also. In 2003, Davis was appointed to the Illinois State Board of Investment by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Davis is the son of Allison Davis Sr., the late University of Chicago professor of social anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American real estate businesspeople Lawyers from Chicago Businesspeople from Chicago {{US-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois State Board Of Investment
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockford, as well Springfield, its capital. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-largest land area. Illinois has a highly diverse economy, with the global city of Chicago in the northeast, major industrial and agricultural hubs in the north and center, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south. Owing to its central location and favorable geography, the state is a major transportation hub: the Port of Chicago has access to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway and to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River via the Illinois Waterway. Additionally, the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |