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Chicago Ridge School District
Chicago Ridge School District 127½ is a school district headquartered in the Dr. Bernard Jumbeck Administrative Center in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. - The name of the headquarters is in the attached image. Most of Chicago Ridge and a portion of Oak Lawn, Illinois, Oak Lawn are in the district boundaries. It operates three schools: Finley Junior High School, Ridge Central School (elementary), and Ridge Lawn School (elementary). Community High School District 218 covers areas covered by this school district, and therefore the feeder high school is Harold L. Richards High School. History Finley Jr. High School opened in 1970. The superintendent was Elden Finley. A strike occurred in 2005. Student body In 2005 it had about 1,300 students. it has about 1,550 students. References External links Chicago Ridge School District 127½ School districts in Cook County, Illinois Oak Lawn, Illinois {{illinois-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Ridge, Illinois
Chicago Ridge is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 14,433. History Chicago Ridge takes its name from ridges left behind when trainloads of dirt were brought out by the Wabash Railroad during construction of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Incorporated on October 17, 1914, the village has an area of approximately and is located in the southwestern portion of Cook County, Illinois, about southwest of downtown Chicago.. Accessed 2008-02-17. The path of Stony Creek arcs through the village. It is not only an old creek but also the remnants of a feeder canal for the Illinois & Michigan Canal that reached from the Little Calumet River westward through the Saganash-kee Slough. Although the work on the feeder canal brought some settlers in the 1840s, German and Dutch farmers arrived after the 1850s. Settlement increased with the coming of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad in 1882. Later, the Wabash would be crossed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |