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  2. St. Patrick's Academy - Wikipedia

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    St. Patrick's Academy was a Catholic grammar school that was located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1883 by the Sisters of Mercy. [1] St. Patrick's was located on the northwest corner of Oakley Avenue and Washington Boulevard. The school was across the street from St. Malachy's parish school. [2] The school closed in 1969. [3]

  3. History of education in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Counts, George S. School and Society in Chicago (1928) online "Free Public Schools of Chicago" Eclectic Journal of Education and Literary Review (January 15, 1851). 2#20 online; Havighurst, Robert J. The public schools of Chicago: a survey for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1964). online

  4. List of Chicago placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    For the Chicago Normal School (now Chicago State University) North Avenue: Was the northern boundary of the city when the street was named. [39] Oak Street: Named for the oak tree. [40] Ogden Avenue: William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago [16] O'Hare Airport: Edward "Butch" O'Hare, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient Ohio ...

  5. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g. to/too)

  6. Morgan Park High School - Wikipedia

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    the Morgan Park High School building seen from South Vincennes Avenue, circa 1916. Between 1904 and 1906, the Arlington School was built at 110th Place and Western Ave., which was the first building used solely by the school. Because of tax issues, the building was legally owned by the grammar school and rented to the high school.

  7. Chicago Public Schools - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...

  8. Grammar school - Wikipedia

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    A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school. The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin.

  9. Sauganash Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Roughly bounded by Lemont and Keating Aves, Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and the alley to the east of Kilbourn Ave, North Side, Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°59′24″N 87°44′33″W  /  41.99000°N 87.74250°W  / 41.99000; -87