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McManis, John T. Ella Flagg Young and a half-century of the Chicago public schools (1916) online; Peterson, Paul E. School politics Chicago style (U of Chicago Press, 1976) online, a major scholarly study of 1970s. Rury, John L. “Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago’s Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education.”
In U.S. v. Board of Education of City of Chicago, No. 80-cv-5124, 621 F. Supp. 1296 (N.D. Ill. 1985), a school desegregation case, Aspen held that the government violated a consent decree that obliged Chicago Public Schools to desegregate.
In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago initiated the closing of 54 public schools. [32] Of the 54 public schools to be closed were 53 elementary schools and one high school. [32] Mayor Rahm Emanuel claimed the school closings were a direct result from the nearly $1 billion deficit the city was facing due to under-enrollment at the schools. [32]
Dodge Elementary School - Now served as Chicago Public Schools, Garfield Park Office. Ana Roque De Duprey School - located at 2620 W Hirsch St.; voted to be closed in 2013. The Board of Education approved a sale to IFF Von Humboldt on Jul 22, 2015 for $3,100,000.
Corporal punishment was abandoned in schools. [6] Population: 178,492. [6] 1866 School of the Art Institute of Chicago founded. Chicago City Cemetery in Lincoln Park was permanently closed, and most of the bodies were moved to other cemeteries in the city. [9] [10] 1867 Construction began on the Water Tower designed by architect W. W. Boyington.
Walter Paepcke (June 29, 1896 – April 13, 1960) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was prominent in the mid-20th century. A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an ...
The fire killed 92 students and three nuns; in response, fire safety improvements were made to public and private schools across the United States. [ 88 ] April 13, 1992, billions of dollars in damage was caused by the Chicago Flood , when a hole was accidentally drilled into the long-abandoned (and mostly forgotten) Chicago Tunnel system ...
The following is a table listing the individuals that held the position of "superintendent of Chicago Public Schools" from its creation in 1854 through its dissolution in 1995: Ella Flagg Young (served 1909–1915); CPS' first female superintendent; first female public school superintendent in a major US city [4]