George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College was a college located in the northwestern corner of Hyde Park, Chicago. The college was an expansion of a summer camp founded by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin in 1886. The college remained in Hyde Park from its founding in 1890 until 1965, when it moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. Subsequently, the Hyde Park campus was demolished in 1989. George Williams College can trace its origin to a summer camp founded on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin by YMCA leaders I. E. Brown, William
George Williams (lawyer) published extensively and his notable works include: George Williams (lawyer) George John Williams is an Australian academic specialising in Australian constitutional law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales. At UNSW he also holds the title of Anthony Mason Professor of Law and Scientia Professor. He is also an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. Williams is a public commentator on public law issues, and writes a regular column in the "Sydney Morning Herald". Williams was born in Queenstown, a mining town in Tasmania, to father John Williams, an economic historian and unionist, and mother