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It is the first medical school in the state of Illinois which is still operating. The remaining 450 Potawatomi left Chicago. 1840 July 10, Chicago's first legally executed criminal, John Stone was hanged for rape and murder. Population: 4,470. [4] 1843: Chicago's first cemetery, Chicago City Cemetery, was established in Lincoln Park. [5]
John Clark Dore, a Boston teacher and principal, became Chicago's first school superintendent in 1854, when there were 34 teachers and 3,000 students. When he resigned in 1856, enrollment had doubled to 6,100, 46 new instructors had been hired, and four new schools (including the first high school) had been constructed. [2]
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. Main building slated to become mixed-use community for teachers.
Equitable Life Building 1902 / 1940 [23] 12 [23] Yes 39 South LaSalle New York Life Insurance Building. 1894 / 1898 / 1903 [24] 14 [24] Yes 50 South LaSalle Northern Trust Company Building. 1905 / 1928 / 1967 [25] 12 [25] Yes 120 South LaSalle State Bank of Chicago 1928 [26] 22 [26] Yes 135 South LaSalle Field Building. 1934 [27] 42 [27] Yes ...
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]
Here are some Star-Telegram photos from the 1950s showing daily life at Paschal, pulled from our archives. ... who are first-year students at Paschal High School, fill the auditorium as school ...
The Chicago Building is an example of Chicago School architecture. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass. These were among the first modern skyscrapers.
The school was established by the Loreto Sisters and opened in August 1906. [1] The school admitted its first African-American students in 1949. [2] As Woodlawn's demographics changed in the 1950s, the school's did as well. [3] By 1960, it had only ten Euro-American students and by the early 1970s it had a completely African-American student body.