Arthur rubloff biography
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Arthur Rubloff
Arthur Rubloff | |
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| Born | June 25, 1902 Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | May 24, 1986 (age 83) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Real estate developer |
| Spouses | Josephine Sheehan (m. 1934; died 1974)Mary Hilem (m. 1980) |
| Children | Felicia Taylor (adopted) |
Arthur Rubloff (June 25, 1902 – May 24, 1986) was an American real estate developer who founded Arthur Rubloff & Co. and is credited with naming and developing North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, into the "Magnificent Mile".
Biography
[edit]Rubloff was born to a Jewish family on June 25, 1902, in Duluth, Minnesota, the eldest of five children born to Solomon Rubloff, an immigrant from Russia who owned several jewelry and dry goods stores.[1] The family moved to Chisholm, Minnesota, but lost everything to a fire in 1908 which destroyed the town.[1] In 1914, at the age of 12, Rubloff ran away to Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked as galley boy on the J.S. Stevenson, an ore boat.[1] In 1915, he moved to Cincinnati where he worked at a furniture manufacturer.[1] In 1917, he moved to Chicago where his parents had moved and worked for his
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CTBA Staff
Ralph Martire is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (“CTBA”), a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) think tank committed to ensuring that state, federal and local workforce, education, fiscal, economic and budget policies are fair and just, and promote opportunity for all, regardless of race, ethnicity or income class. He is also the Rubloff Professor of Public Policy at Roosevelt University. During his time at CTBA, Ralph has helped obtain numerous legislative successes (including passage of the Evidence Based Model of Education Funding in FY2018, a state Earned Income Tax Credit, creation of a bipartisan legislative task force to integrate workforce and economic development policies, passage of the 2011 Temporary Tax Increases, corporate accountability legislation that, among other things, requires public reporting of economic development benefits created through receipt of tax breaks and other subsidies, decoupling Illinois tax policy from both the federal bonus depreciation rules and the federal repeal of the estate tax).
In 2018, Ralph was appointed to serve on the legislatively established “Professional Review Panel,” charged with monitoring the implementation of Illinois’ new evidence-based school funding formula. He was also appointed to
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