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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.
Kennedy–King College Library, [5] which was founded as Woodrow Wilson Junior College Library in 1935, had over 50,000 books. [6] [7] The school's address was 6800 South Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60621–3798. Woodrow Wilson Junior College was located at 6800 South Stewart Avenue, Chicago, as of November 1942. [8]
Although it caused a lot of controversy, Wilson J.C. was later renamed Kennedy-King College in 1969 (following the 1968 assassinations, just weeks apart, of Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), and Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)), and Herzl J.C. was closed as a college and became an elementary school, with a new Malcolm X College at a ...
The Chicago Conservatory College (1857–1981, Chicago) Chicago Technical College (1904–1977, Chicago) Evanston College for Ladies (1871–1873, Evanston, Illinois), merged with Northwestern University in 1873
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 ...
WKKC (89.3 FM) is an educational non-profit radio station in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Kennedy–King College and broadcasting primarily to the city's South Side. The studio and transmitter are at the campus in the school's Englewood neighborhood. The station is used to train students in broadcasting and communications.
KKC may refer to: Kahn-Kalai conjecture, a mathematical problem in the field of probability; Kennedy–King College, a public two-year community college in Chicago, Illinois, United States; Khon Kaen Airport (IATA code: KKC), a Thai military/public airport; The Kingkiller Chronicle, a fantasy trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss
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 ...