Morgan Park High School is a 4-year public high school and middle school located in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1916, Morgan Park is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Morgan Park is located at the intersection of 111th Street and Vincennes Avenue.
Morgan Park High School c. 2016.
the Morgan Park High School building seen from South Vincennes Avenue, circa 1916.
Morgan Park High School seen in 2016.
Varsity basketball team celebrate second straight IHSA Class 3A title victory, March 2018.
Morgan Park, located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, is one of the city's 77 official community areas. Morgan Park is located south of the Beverly neighborhood and north of the Chicago city border, and includes Mount Greenwood Cemetery. The community, settled in the mid-19th century, was initially known as North Blue Island, being located close to the existing town of Blue Island to the south. As of 2013, Morgan Park was majority-black, with approximately 22,924 residents in 2015.
Entrance to the George C. Walker Library. The building and many of the books the library contained when it opened were a gift of George C. Walker, then president of the Blue Island Land and Building Company (his predecessor being F.H. Winston, a prominent Chicago attorney). The original portion of the building was designed by Charles Sumner Frost and cost $12,000. It opened on April 22nd, 1890, was expanded by an addition that quadrupled its space in 1929,
Image from the booklet Suburban Homes – Morgan Park by the Blue Island Land and Building Company, 1886
Image from Views of Morgan Park, 1889
Image from the booklet Suburban Homes – Morgan Park by the Blue Island Land and Building Company, 1886