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Our Lady of the Angels was a grammar school comprising kindergarten through eighth-grade education. It was located at 909 North Avers Avenue in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago's West Side, on the northeast corner of West Iowa Street and North Avers Avenue (some sources describe the school as "in Austin"). [3]
Mercy Home began accepting girls in 1987. Three years later, it was renamed Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are cared for—the Boys' Campus, located in Chicago's West Loop area, and the Girls' Campus, located south, in Chicago's Morgan Park community.
Originally known as St. Mary's Training School for Boys, the facility was the vision of Chicago archbishop Patrick A. Feehan and served as an orphanage for many decades. . Following a rebuild after a massive fire in 1899, St. Mary's new director, Reverend James Doran, opened the facility to girls in an effort to reunite orphaned brothers and s
The 1902 Chicago Orphans season was the 31st season of the Chicago Orphans franchise, the 27th in the National League (NL), and the tenth at West Side Park. The Orphans finished fifth in the National League with a record of 68–69–6 (.496 winning percentage ).
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago was founded in 1860 as the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum. In addition to housing orphans and other dependent children, the Asylum provided day care services for working mothers. In 1931, the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum moved into a building at 2800 West Foster Avenue.
Amanda Smith (née Berry; January 23, 1837 – February 24, 1915) [1] was an American Methodist preacher and former slave who funded the former Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago.
Founded in 1885, the Chicago Training School was started in order to educate and train women for Christian service and ministry. [3] The school grew out of the Methodist deaconess movement [4] and gave preparation for missionary work in "city, home, and foreign fields". [5] It was run by Lucy Rider Meyer, and her husband Josiah Shelley Meyer.
In 1899, following the Spanish–American War, the Civil War Orphans' Home was amended to allow the children of soldiers and sailors of the Spanish–American War [2] [5] and the school began accepting children whose fathers had served in the army or navy during any war.