St. Ignatius College Prep
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. For the similarly named high school in San Francisco, see St. Ignatius College PreparatorySt. Ignatius College PreparatorySt. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...
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Saint Ignatius College Prep is a private
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, coeducational Jesuit high school
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located in Chicago
Chicago
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, Illinois
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. The school was founded in Chicago in 1870 by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Belgian missionary to the United States. The school is coeducational, Catholic, college preparatory and sponsored by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). The school enjoys a strong academic reputation within a faith-supportive school community. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.
Overview
The school's main building was designed by the Canadian architect Toussaint Menard in the Second Empire style. It is one of the five extant, public buildings in Chicago that predate the Great Fire of 1871. Its construction was begun in 1869, a fact commemorated on the school’s façade. The main edifice is on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a Chicago Landmark on March 1987. The 19 acre (77,000 m²) campus is located on Chicago's West Side, adjacent to the campus of the University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
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Features of the campus besides the 1869 building, include the Richard H. Driehaus "1895" Building, the Chicago Walsh-Slattery Center, the James and Genevieve McLaughlin Center and its 380 seat McLaughlin Theatre, with an interior modeled after still-extant, late 19th century Chicago theaters. The Grand Gallery on the fourth floor of the 1869 building features a marble plaque commemorating Saint Ignatius alumni who fought in the American wars. The richly paneled Brunswick Room, originally a natural history museum, holds a notable archive of the school’s and city’s history.
Saint Ignatius offers an enriched curriculum in literature, language, math, computer science, art and music, science and religion. The goal is to offer a challenging program educating students for rigorous colleges and universities, which are very frequently preparations for graduate and professional studies. These studies, imbued with a formation in religious and ethical principles, and involving students in prayer and liturgies, are furthered by study and reflection on the major issues of justice in our time. These studies and experiences, focusing on issues in our own country, as well as issue across the world, will, hopefully, ensure the school’s young people’s becoming highly able, thoughtful, compassionate and responsible adults with a strong sense of service to family and especially “those without” in society.
Tuition
Tuition for the 2010-2011 school year is $12,980; however, there is a $2,000 gap between the cost of education and tuition. Saint Ignatius students received over $2.5 million in need-based grants for 2009–2010; for the 2010-2011 year, Saint Ignatius was awarded roughly $2,690,000. These are funded, primarily, through the school’s fund-raising efforts and from its endowment’s interest, but also by independent charities that offer special funding for minority students. Over 25% of enrolled students receive some financial aid. Much of the other, actual cost to operate the school is funded from its development initiatives and endowment, including donations and grants from alumni, parents, friends, as well as foundations and businesses.Mission statement
- Saint Ignatius College Prep, a Jesuit Catholic school in the heart of Chicago, is a diverse community dedicated to educating men and women for lives of faith, love, service and leadership. Through outstanding teaching and personal formation, the school challenges its talented student body to intellectual excellence, integrity, and life-long learning and growth. Inspired by the GospelGospelA gospel is an account, often written, that describes the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In a more general sense the term "gospel" may refer to the good news message of the New Testament. It is primarily used in reference to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...
of JesusJesusJesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
, this community strives to use God's gifts to promote social justice for the greater glory of God.
History
In the 1850s, Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Jesuit priest from Belgium, recruited to work with Native Americans in the Dakotas by Fr. Peter De Smedt,S.J.,was first assigned to Chicago to start a parish for Irish immigrants on Chicago's near-West Side, then an area of sprawling prairie. Construction of Holy Family Church was completed in 1857.During the 1860s, Fr. Damen, with the help of Jesuits in his community, developed five elementary schools for the children of his parish, now grown to about 25,000 people. It became clear that at least some of the children had to get further education. And so Fr. Damen decided to begin a secondary school and a college program for young men. At approximately the same time, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary began a secondary school for young women about five blocks away.
Supported by loans and many small gifts, construction of the main building of Saint Ignatius College commenced in 1869, with designs by the Canadian architect Toussaint Menard. On June 30, 1870, the Illinois General Assembly approved the Charter of Saint Ignatius College, and in September, 1870, Saint Ignatius opened its doors to thirty-seven young men who had completed the eighth grade, the extent of formal education offered in the area at the time. The College was to offer a six year program, four years of it in the “Academy” and two more, as was often the custom then, in what we would today call “collegiate studies.”
Saint Ignatius was one of the first colleges in the Chicago area, predating the University of Chicago by 20 years and graduating its first class little more than a decade after Northwestern University did so. Students were instructed in Latin, Greek, the elementary sciences, writing, math and rhetoric—the components of a traditional "college" education of the era.
In October 1871, disaster struck Chicago in the form of the Great Chicago Fire, but Damen's church and college were some of the buildings spared from the inferno, the worst of the fire blown northeast. Fr. Damen the day of the fire to ask his Holiness to pray to God to save Holy Family and Saint Ignatius and was away at the time and, on hearing of the great fire, promised to keep a candle lit on the altar of the Blessed Virgin in the Church, in perpetuum, if the church was spared. It was and those candles, now electrified, still burn in Holy Family Church.
While Saint Ignatius continued to grow through the 1870s and 1880s, these were difficult years. Many of the original families had moved “up and out” of the neighborhood and, just a few blocks southeast, Polish and Russians Jewish families, new immigrants fleeing the pograms in their countries, settled in the Maxwell Street area. Just to the north of the school, in the Taylor Street area, Greek and Italian families, fleeing the poverty and contention in their own countries, renewed the cycle of poverty in the area and increased the neighborhood’s “foreignness.”
There was the concern that Catholic families, having moved to other areas, would not send their boys to the school. And so a tentative outreach to the north, to the southwest corner of North Avenue and Ashland, was launched. Called St. Aloysius College, it had only a two year life in a rented house. But, since the Saint Ignatius neighborhood was becoming “tougher,” so it was thought, there were still concerns about enrollment. In these days, there were about 250 young men in the six year program.
Still, by 1894, the college's enrollment had expanded sufficiently to warrant the construction of a third building, which was completed in 1895. Just two years after the debut of electric power on a grand scale at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago, the trustees of Saint Ignatius were still cautious about the staying power of electricity. So the fixtures used in the new building were “transitional,” offering both gas and electrical light. With the addition of this wing, the school-owned property was almost completely taken up, leaving only a small “play yard, surrounded by a wall, to its northeast.
It took a long while for the recent immigrants to the area to learn English and find work to support themselves in decency. Worries about enrollment in the secondary school continued and the decision was made to start a new secondary school in a more Catholic part of Chicago. This was the area northeast of Sheridan and Devon, in what was called Rogers Park. An out-going superior of the Jesuit Community at Saint Ignatius, Fr. Henry Dumbach, S.J. began that effort and Loyola Academy opened in 1907. The Jesuits were still not sure whether they were going to close Saint Ignatius and have Loyola Academy supplant it—or whether to keep both. In this mood of uncertainty, Saint Ignatius continued on.
By 1922, St. Ignatius College had become too large for its buildings, with the collegiate part of the school growing significantly. The school buildings on Roosevelt Road were hemmed around by Holy Family Church and Elementary School to the west, a neighborhood of homes to the north and commercial establishments to its east.
So the Jesuits decided to separate the education of 14–18 year old boys, continuing on Roosevelt Road—and the education of the older students into a separate, collegiate, now-four-year school that became Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...
. This college program, and building of new school buildings and a residence for the Jesuits, was sited on the lake shore campus of Loyola Academy, where there was room to expand. To go along with the custom of the time, St. Ignatius Academy was re-named St. Ignatius High School.
The school continued its mission through the hard times of the War years, with many alumni participating and dying, and the Depression. The academic standards and faith development of students continued strong and the school was filled to capacity, over 1,000 students, through the 1960s.
After World War I, the student body became much more diverse, with the sons of Italian families in the Taylor Street neighborhood coming in significant numbers, as did the sons of, especially, Central European families who had immigrated to the United States. These families were, primarily, of Lithuanian, Czech and Polish origins. In the late 1930s, African-American families, living in the area in some number by this time, started to send their sons. After World War II, Mexican families were living south of the school, in the area called Pilsen. Their sons came. Except in the initial years, Saint Ignatius was never a neighborhood school. Students traveled from long distances to have a Jesuit education.
This principle of inclusiveness through the depression and the next decades offered great value to the students, giving them the opportunity to become friends with young men of a great variety of backgrounds, socio-economically, racially and ethnically. But it caused its own problems. With the exception of some Mothers’ Club efforts, fund-raising was not in vogue then, or at least not taken up by the school in any formal way. Reduced tuitions for boys whose families could not pay were not made up for by donations from friends and alumni supporting those students. And so there was ever less money for building up-dates and repairs. So deferred maintenance became the rule.
In the challenging times after Vatican II and the confusion of values in American stemming from the war in Vietnam, vocations to many religious orders, including the Jesuits, declined. So the schools that had been principally staffed by Jesuits hired talented lay people to take their places. While this offered new value and modeling to the students, it increased school costs, due to salaries and benefits to-be-paid, significantly.
By the 1970s Saint Ignatius' buildings had fallen into disrepair and the still-very-low tuitions charged, plus the financial aid offered, gave rise to borrowing money to pay salaries and offer day-to-day maintenance. The “word got around” and many became concerned that the school would close. With this a rumored possibility, enrollment declined. And so did morale.
Fund-raising initiatives begun in the 1970s, such as the "Walk for Ignatius" and annual benefits (the first headlined by Bob Hope in 1976) helped sustain the school's solvency. But it was still highly precarious.
At the same time, with academic standards still high, parents who had boys in the school asked why it did not admit their daughters. There was certainly room and it would be much easier for parents to have their children at one school than two. Around that same time, some number of Catholic girls’ schools in Chicago closed in similar financial distress. Thus some parents were having a harder time finding a challenging Catholic high school opportunity for their daughters. And, obviously, a higher enrollment would greatly boost the school’s financial vitality.
In 1979 the school welcomed girls, many of the first of whom were sisters of boys currently enrolled. Parents’ and students’ enthusiasm for this created a very positive report. And so applications for entry climbed from 400 or so boys a year to over 800 boys and girls within two years. Tuition began to increase in more substantial amounts at this time, with the goal of having a balanced budget without short or long-term borrowing.
At this same time, a Board of Trustees was begun, made up of Jesuits and lay people, replacing the all-Jesuit board of the past. The school was separately incorporated from the local Jesuit community and from the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus. Contemporary programs and processes were invoked.
The president of the school, while still to be a Jesuit, while missioned to that position by his religious superior, became the employee of the Board of Trustees. With this highly significant change came new talents and perspectives to the school’s governance. These, ultimately, saved the school.
In 1984, under new school leadership and under the direction of its Board of Trustees, the first of many capital campaigns was begun to improve salaries and benefits and to renovate the historic school buildings. There was a question at the time of whether to modernize the building, insofar as that was possible, and save money by routing mechanicals on the wall’s surface, installing ready-made windows that would be bricked around to fill up the openings, etc. It would have been a savings, but an historic travesty. The choice taken was to restore the building to their original styles and decorative designs (see the virtual tour on the school’s website).
That decision involved a complete re-roofing in slate, an extended re-working of the masonry, a rebuilding of the front porch and gutters, the building and installation of 493 windows, from 8 to 24’ in height, according to the designs of the original windows (still in place at that time), a total re-wiring of the building, new and extended plumbing, new and extended labs , the installation of two new elevators, replacement of most wall surfaces, new heating and pipes, new dire-security systems, new wood flooring in many areas—and professional attention to replacing, in public areas, copies of the original gas-light fixtures. Layers of wall paint were scraped through to find the original colors and designs—and these were replicated. Along the way, it became possible to furnish public areas with antique furniture appropriate to the period, the generous gift of Mr. Richard Driehaus
Richard Driehaus
Richard H. Driehaus is a fund manager, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management, based in Chicago, a firm which manages US$10 billion...
from his collection.
The successive campaign’s goals included developing an endowment, as well as an annual campaign, to support financial aid. These efforts accomplished their purpose and added two more buildings (increasing the school buildings’ total size from 130,000 to about 225,000 square feet), built in an historic style to complement the original buildings. In these efforts, Saint Ignatius became the most successful Catholic school, but also 6th among all schools in the nation, including private, boarding schools, in fund-raising.
In 1991, a decision was made to both help preserve Chicago’s architectural past and to offer students references to Chicago’s rich architectural past by developing a collection of iron, terracotta, stone and other-metal fragments removed in recent years from their demolished Chicago and mid=west structures. It has developed into a several-hundred piece collection, exhibited around the school buildings and outside, on the campus. Significant works from structures by Sullivan, Root, Burnham and many others are included in, often, large scale pieces. The most significant object is the only remaining portion, 22 feet, of the terra-cotta cornice from Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange, demolished in 1965.
Recent history
During the 2009–2010 school year, the Trustees of Saint Ignatius announced the appointment of the school’s 29th president, Fr. Michael Caruso, S.J., taking the place of Fr. Brian Paulson, who stepped down after 10 years of fine service to the school. Fr. Caruso officially took the job in the summer of 2010. Fr. Caruso, prior to taking the position, served as chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at Loyola Marymount UniversityLoyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...
in Los Angeles, CA. Additionally, he is an Associate Professor of Education with an emphasis in Catholic Administration. Fr. Caruso also previously taught at DeSmet Jesuit High School in St. Louis, MO and Regis Jesuit High School
Regis Jesuit High School
Regis Jesuit High School is a Jesuit Catholic college preparatory high school located in Aurora, Colorado. Founded in 1877, the high school shares much of its history with its counterpart Regis University in neighboring Denver, Colorado....
in Denver, CO. Dr. Catherine Karl continues in her role of principal, which she has held since 2004.
Athletics
Saint Ignatius competes in the Chicago Catholic LeagueChicago Catholic League
The Chicago Catholic League is a high school athletic conference based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. All of the schools are currently part of the Illinois High School Association, the governing body for Illinois scholastic sports...
(CCL) and the Girls Catholic Athletic Conference (GCAC) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association
Illinois High School Association
The Illinois High School Association is one of 521 state high school associations in the United States, designed to regulate competition in most interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level. It is a charter member of the National Federation of State High...
(IHSA) which governs most sports and competitive activities in the state. The school's teams are stylized as the "Wolfpack".
The school sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and water polo. Young men may compete in baseball, football, and wrestling, while young women may compete in cheerleading and softball. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors teams for young men in ice hockey and rugby, for young women in field hockey and dance. There is also a coed sailing team, and crew teams for both young men and women. However, the only team in recent memory to represent the school on the national level are the boys and girls crew teams, who compete at the SRAA nationals on an annual basis. At the 2010 SRAA nationals in Saratoga Springs, NY the boys junior 4+ took second place.
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