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Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center - occupied the old Hookway Elementary School; Chicago High School (1856–1880) - renamed Central High School in 1878, closed in 1880; building demolished in 1950 to make way for the Kennedy Expressway [14] Chicago Talent Development High School (2009–2014) Chicago Virtual Charter School (K–12, 2006 ...
The 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) Mack Library (named for John Sephus Mack) holds a collection of more than 300,000 books and includes seating for 1,200 as well as a computer lab and a computer classroom. [90] (Its ancillary, a music library, is included in the Gustafson Fine Arts Center.)
Eunice Hutto Morelock (1904–1947), mathematics professor; one of the first female academic deans of a coeducational college in the US; [4] namesake of a wing of the Bob Jones Academy quadrangle; Robert Kirthwood "Lefty" Johnson (1910–1971), BJU business manager from 1935 until his death; namesake of a residence hall; Darell Koons (1924 ...
Fenger competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The school sport teams are stylized as the Titans. The boys' baseball team won an Illinois state title and placed first in 1945–46 and were public league champions four times; 1945–46, 1951–52, 1970, 1985–86.
The diocesan school remained open only until 1997 because the school's population had continued to drop. The school and property were then sold to the Chicago Public Schools system, which opened the current school in 1998 as Southside College Preparatory Academy. In 2001, the school was named in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, who was a South Side ...
V.O.I.S.E. Academy High School, which opened in 2008. (VOISE stands for "Virtual Opportunities Inside a School Environment"; the school combines an online curriculum with classroom instruction.) [14] The schools on the Austin campus share an athletics program. The sports teams are nicknamed the Tigers.
Academy of Our Lady, also known as Longwood Academy, was a school in the Chicago, Illinois from 1875 to 1999. It was co-ed until 1892, and a girls' school afterwards; took boarding students until 1935; and had a grade school program until 1950, after which it was only a high school. [1] It opened as Academy of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in 1875
The school was established by the Chicago Board of Education as Hyde Park High School in 1863. The school was housed in several locations from its opening until 1886 [8] when the board of education dedicated a three-floor school building located at Kimbark Avenue and 56th Streets in Hyde Park neighborhood. Hyde Park remained at the location ...