Category: Schools
The gardens at Waters School
Waters Elementary School is a small (enrolment 449) pre-K-8 neighborhood school with a fine arts magnet program. It serves the Ravenswood Manor, Rav [...]
A walk around the Waters School in Ravenswood Gardens
If "concrete jungle" is your notion of the grounds of a Chicago Public School, you'll be surprised by this Pre-K -8 school on Chicago's near Northwe [...]
British School steaming ahead on Halsted
We hadn't stopped by the future home of the British School of Chicago in a while and were pleasantly surprised this morning to see how far constru [...]
Rents and schools on the rise in Ravenswood?
YoChicago's Joe Zekas and neighborhood resident and Chicago Home Estates sales agent Eric Rojas talk about rental and for-sale housing prices in Rav [...]
Daley alma mater to turn landmark theater green
Mayor Richard M. Daley recently introduced an ordinance that would clear the way for his alma mater, De La Salle Institute, 3455 S Wabash Ave, to pu [...]
Staring out at the great divide
I've heard a number of South Siders express concern about the digital divide — the extent to which their communities may lag other parts of the [...]
Jolly good school rising on Near North Side, old chap
Sure, it might seem fitting that the British School of Chicago is located on Bryn Mawr Avenue in Edgewater - after all, "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill [...]
Video of the day – the paradox of Bucktown elementary schools
The paradox stated in the video - an area that's largely white and affluent has elementary schools that are predominantly poor and Hispanic. [...]
South Kenwood's Harvard School converting to condos
When planning the conversion of the Harvard School for Boys in the South Side's Kenwood neighborhood, developer Steve Soble pored over old yearbooks [...]
Senn High School principal on new military academy, gentrification, falling enrollment
The controversy over a new military academy at Nicholas Senn High School has faded among the student body, according to the principal, but the challe [...]
Edgewater issues — a military academy at Senn
One of the hot topics in Edgewater is whether the Rickover Naval Academy should be hosted at Senn High School, and what impact it's having on othe [...]
City sweeps worst school rankings
The 20 high schools in the metro area that scored the worst on the Prairie State Achievement Examination are all in the city of Chicago.
In nineteen [...]
Chicago's public schools mirror changes wrought by residential development
Head over to Yo's new Public schools forum, where a thread has started about how residential development in neighborhoods like Lincoln Park, the South [...]
School is selling point behind Kildeer single-family home development
We've gone all suburban this afternoon at Yo. Here's another new project: Kildeer Estates, a collection of 110 single-family homes on a parcel at U. S [...]
Topinka's education plan skirts property tax issue
Gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka unveiled her long-awaited education plan yesterday, but like Rod, she's sidestepped the 10,000-pound gorilla [...]
Debate over NU's Evanston home purchase is academic
Evanston, or at least a vocal contingent of Evanstonians, is up in arms about Northwestern University's quiet purchase of a $600,000 house at 1945 Orr [...]
University of Chicago picks Urban Works to redesign new minority building
The University of Chicago has announced that Urban Works Architects will redesign the building at 5710 S Woodlawn Ave, the future home of the Office o [...]
Trice defends Chicago neighborhood mapmaker dumped by CAR, CPS
Dawn Turner Trice laments in a column today that the big, bad Goliath of the Chicago Public School bureaucracy stomped on a poor David in the shape of [...]
New charter school in Woodlawn means more opportunities – and probably more condos
I've railed against the effect of good schools on real estate values in the surrounding neighborhood and how it becomes difficult for many homebuyers [...]
University of Chicago's south campus development plan
Check out the University of Chicago's south campus development plan. By 2008, this area will be home to a residence hall for 900 students, a couple of [...]