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Cooley Vocational High School

Cooley Vocational High School

Edwin Gilbert Cooley Vocational High School (also known as Cooley Vocational High School and Upper Grade Center, commonly known as Cooley High) was a public 4–year vocationalhigh school and middle school located in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Opened primarily to serve Cabrini-Green in 1958, Cooley was housed in a high school building constructed in 1907, which had housed trade schools. It was a part of the Chicago Public Schools district and served grades 7 through 12. Cooley was named in honor of Edwin Gilbert Cooley (1857–1923), who served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools from 1900 until 1909. Cooley closed in June 1979.