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River Grove School District 85.5
River Grove School District 85.5 is a school district headquartered in River Grove, Illinois. It operates a single K-8 school, River Grove Public School. The district was established in the 1830s along a trading trail leading from Chicago to a crossing of the DesPlaines River. The large cast bell from the original framed school building remains in the school's entrance and dates the original building to 1867. Dr. John Bartelt acted as superintendent between 2004 through 2012. Glenn Grieshaber served as superintendent between 2012 and 2015 after serving as principal for seven years. Joseph Simpkins served as superintendent until 2017, when he became head of Richland School District 88A. Jan Rashid became the superintendent on July 1, 2017. References External links River Grove School District 85.5 School districts in Cook County, Illinois {{Illinois-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Grove, Illinois
River Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,612 at the 2020 census. Geography River Grove is located at (41.925830, -87.840135). According to the 2010 census, River Grove has a total area of , all land. History Just as nearby Elmwood Park and Oak Park are named after their historic elm and oak trees, River Grove gets its two-part name first from the community's shallow, muddy Des Plaines River, and second from the majestic groves of American ash trees lining shore of the river's "bottomland." Credit goes to the village's early German and Nordic settlers who, already holding a great reverence for the "mystic ash" through old world traditions, felt that they were home again among the familiar groves of ash trees, "just like the ones they left behind." Up until the modern day extinction event of the American ash tree species 2006–2018, River Grove was the home to Cook County's second-oldest green ash with an estimated age of 240 in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-8 School
K8 or K-8 may refer to: * K-8 (Kansas highway), two highways in Kansas, one in northern Kansas, one in southern Kansas * K-8 school, a type of school that includes kindergarten and grades one through eight * AMD K8, the internal designation for the first generation of AMD64-architecture microprocessors from AMD * Hongdu JL-8 or K-8, a training aircraft * Kaliningrad K-8 (AA-3 Anab), a Soviet missile * Norrlands dragonregemente or K 8, a Swedish Army cavalry regiment * Schleicher Ka 8, a single-seat glider * Soviet submarine K-8 * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Mozart) K. 8, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Zambia Skyways, IATA airline designator * World Atlantic Airlines, IATA airline designator * Kan Air, IATA airline designator * K8, a member of the Mazda K engine family * LG K8, an LG K series mobile phone released in 2016 * K8 group, an online casino company * Kubernetes Kubernetes (, commonly stylized as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richland School District 88A
Richland School District 88A is an elementary and middle school district Crest Hill, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Richland Elementary School has grades K-4. Richland Junior High School serves grades 5–8. High school students matriculate to Lockport Township High School.About District 88A " Richland School District 88A. Retrieved on July 30, 2015. or Joliet Catholic Academy. Student body As of 2015 the school has 966 students: 36.9% of them are white, 31.7% are Hispanic, 5.4% are Asian, .3% are Pacific Islander, and 11.8% are of two or more races.History The original building was built in 1957 and is now where the 5th grade, Spanish, and superintendent office i ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
