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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 .
One of the entrances to the school, 2017. Austin was opened by the Chicago Public Schools district in 1876. [5]In 1899, the tuition charged to residents of River Forest and Maywood going to Oak Park High School was raised, prompting the students from those towns to move their students to Austin High.
In 1992, the 15th District (Austin) of the Chicago Police Department located at 5327 West Chicago Avenue at the time recorded about 48 homicides, which covers most of the Austin neighborhood, making the Austin District the fourth-deadliest police district at the time, before the 11th District (Harrison), which had 93 homicides, 7th District ...
Gage Park High School serves most of the community area. Some sections are served by Hubbard, Kelly, Curie, and Solorio high schools. [3] Gage Park High School is located on South Rockwell Street, where 728 students attended during the 2013–2014 school year. Of the 728, 96.6% were from low-income households and 18.3% are homeless.
Chicago Public Schools serves residents of the community area; [18] K-8 schools serving Armour Square include Haines and James Ward. [19] Ward Elementary opened as Garibaldi Street Primary School in 1874, and became the Ward School in 1875, before receiving its current name in 1908. [20] Residents are zoned to Phillips Academy High School. [21]
In 1912, eight students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago painted murals in the Sherman Park fieldhouse that came to be known as the American History Series. These murals commemorate events such as the founding of Jamestown in 1607, the Marquette-Joliet Expedition of 1673, and George Rogers Clark's Illinois Campaign of 1778.
Three more long time SoCo shops are leaving as the street's brand, and rent, continues to rise. As luxury brands flock to Austin's SoCo neighborhood, 3 more small businesses are leaving Skip to ...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) operates public schools serving the community. [7] Ogden International School of Chicago has its East Campus, which houses elementary school, [8] in the Gold Coast. [9] Residents of the Gold Coast are zoned to Ogden School for grades K-8, [10] while for high school they are zoned to Lincoln Park High School. [11]