South Shore High School (Chicago, Illinois)
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South Shore High School was a public high school in Chicago
, Illinois
. It was founded in 1940. Beginning in 2001, the school campus, located at 7529-7627 South Constance Street, was divided into four smaller, more specialized high schools: the School of Entrepenuership, the School of the Arts, the School of Leadership, and the School of Technology.
Students from the four schools share an athletic program, which continues to use the South Shore name.
In 2011, a new school, South Shore International College Prep, was built at 1955 East 75th Street.
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. It was founded in 1940. Beginning in 2001, the school campus, located at 7529-7627 South Constance Street, was divided into four smaller, more specialized high schools: the School of Entrepenuership, the School of the Arts, the School of Leadership, and the School of Technology.
Students from the four schools share an athletic program, which continues to use the South Shore name.
In 2011, a new school, South Shore International College Prep, was built at 1955 East 75th Street.
Notable South Shore High School Alumni
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appearances. - Suze OrmanSuze OrmanSusan "Suze" Lynn Orman is an American financial advisor, author, motivational speaker, and television host.Orman was born in Chicago and received her B.A. in social work. She worked as a waitress in Berkeley, California before becoming a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch...
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, and television host. - Mandy PatinkinMandy PatinkinMandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best-known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park...
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is an artist. - Walter StanleyWalter StanleyWalter Stanley is a former professional American football wide receiver for Ten seasons in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers, the Detroit Lions, the Washington Redskins, the New England Patriots, and the San Diego Chargers...
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(1985–92). - James D. WatsonJames D. WatsonJames Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...
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. He later played a role in the Human Genome ProjectHuman Genome ProjectThe Human Genome Project is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional...
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