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Richards was established by the Chicago Public Schools in September 1946 as an all-girls vocational school. [7] [8] At the time of its opening, enrollment was 230.The school was initially housed in a former elementary school building at 2535 South Green Street which was used as a barracks during World War I.
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 ...
DeVry was founded in 1931 as the De Forest Training School in Chicago, Illinois. [2] School founder Herman A. DeVry, who had previously invented a motion picture projector and produced educational and training films, named the school after his friend Lee de Forest. [2] De Forest Training School originally taught projector and radio repair, but ...
Farragut Career Academy High School is a public four-year high school located in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. As a career academy, Farragut emphasizes a curriculum that combines academic instruction with work-study experiences and vocational training.
[21] [22] [23] the school was home to a Civil Air Patrol Cadet squadron but 1958 saw the activation of the school's ROTC program; the first to be started in a Chicago high school since 1946. The same article noted that the entire population of the school was 4,000, with the first ROTC class seeing an enrollment of 250. [24]
The original Wright campus is now home to the Chicago Academy Elementary School, the Chicago Academy High School, and the Academy for Urban School Leadership's central office. Due to needs for additional space and more specialized facilities, in 1993 it moved to a 23-acre parcel at 4300 N. Narragansett Avenue, at a cost of $90 million. [ 4 ]
Clout-heavy contractor linked to federal investigations at Chicago City Hall and in the suburbs Jason Meisner, A.D. Quig, Sarah Freishtat and Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune November 13, 2023 ...
Through Inoxum, Outokumpu acquired stainless steel mills in China, Mexico, Bochum, Germany, Werdohl, Germany, and in Calvert, Alabama, USA. On 30 November 2013, Outokumpu announced it would sell AST, certain service centers and the VDM Metals business to Thyssen Krupp, and in turn, ThyssenKrupp would sell its 29.9% shares in Outokumpu, and ...