Niles Township High Schools District 219
Niles Township High School District 219 is a public secondary school district in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the Niles Township, Cook County, Illinois, Niles Township, District 219 serves the educational requirements of the suburban communities of Lincolnwood, Illinois, Lincolnwood, parts of Morton Grove, Illinois, Morton Grove, Niles, Illinois, Niles, and Skokie, Illinois, Skokie, in the north of Cook County, Illinois. The outstanding art-and-science successes of District 219 include the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts declaring the Arts Program of D219 as the best of its kind in the nation in 2007. Moreover, besides the success of Niles West H.S. in the Science Olympiad, District 219 claims two Nobel Prize, Nobel laureates as alumnae. In November 2022, District 219 was the first U.S. school district to offer Assyrian language, Assyrian-language courses upon their inclusion to the Illinois State Course Catalogue; the population of District 219 is approximately thirty pe ...
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Skokie, Illinois
Skokie (; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, neighboring the City of Chicago's northern border. Its population, according to the 2020 census, was 67,824. Skokie lies approximately north of Chicago's downtown Loop. Its name comes from a Potawatomi word for "marsh." For many years, Skokie promoted itself as "The World's Largest Village." Skokie's streets, like that of many suburbs, are largely a continuation of the Chicago street grid, and the village is served by the Chicago Transit Authority, further cementing its connection to the city. Skokie was originally a German-Luxembourger farming community, but was later settled by a sizeable Jewish population, especially after World War II. At its peak in the mid-1960s, 58% of the population was Jewish, the largest proportion of any Chicago suburb. Skokie still has many Jewish residents (now about 30% of the population) and over a dozen synagogues. It is home to the Illinois Holocaust Muse ...
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Assyrian Language
Assyrian language may refer to: * Ancient Assyrian language, a dialect of the ancient East Semitic Akkadian language * In modern Assyrian terminology, related to Neo-Aramaic languages: ** Suret language, a modern West Semitic language, that belongs to the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic branch ** Turoyo language, a modern West Semitic language, part of the Central Neo-Aramaic branch See also * Assyria (other) * Assyrian (other) * Eastern Assyrian (other) * Western Assyrian (other) * Syrian language (other) Syrian language may refer to: * Languages of Syria, several dialects of Arabic as well as other languages without official status ** Syrian Arabic language, encompassing all variants of Arabic language in Syria ** Syrian Turkish language, encom ...