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Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is a two-year college located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was founded as Crane Junior College in 1911 and was the first of the City Colleges. Crane ceased operation during the Depression; their newspaper, the Crane College Javelin, was still being printed in May of 1932.
The City Colleges of Chicago is the public community college system of the Chicago area. Its colleges offer associate degrees, certificates, free courses for the GED, and free English as a second language (ESL) courses. The City Colleges system has its administrative offices in the Chicago Loop. [2]
Malcolm X College; Olive–Harvey College; Richard J. Daley College; Truman College; Wilbur Wright College; College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, Illinois) College of Lake County (Grayslake, Illinois) Elgin Community College (Elgin, Illinois) Harper College (Palatine, Illinois) Joliet Junior College (Joliet, Illinois) McHenry County College (Crystal ...
The Illinois community college system has a three-tier governance system. Each community college district has a locally elected board of trustees, with the exception of City Colleges of Chicago, whose local board is appointed by the mayor of Chicago. The Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) is the state coordinating board for community colleges.
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The City Colleges of Chicago operates two colleges on the West Side. In the Near West Side, there is the long-established Malcolm X College. Located on Van Buren Street near Damen Avenue, Malcolm X College is linked to Chicago's first city college Crane Junior College, later Herzl College, which was originally located in Lawndale near Douglass ...
The college remained in its initial location at 3400 N. Austin Ave. until moving to a new campus in 1993. In 1966, Wright and the other city colleges were reorganized into a new community college district, named the City Colleges of Chicago, with its own Board of Trustees and taxing authority. This system includes colleges which, in turn, are a ...
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