Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students.

More than 4,000 students once crowded DuSable High School, then an all-Black academic powerhouse on Chicago’s South Side. Its three-story Art Deco building drew students with a full lineup of ...

No high school in America did more to shape the sound of jazz than a magnificent edifice at 49th Street and Wabash Avenue, on the South Side of Chicago. Singer-pianist Nat “King” Cole, master ...

Originally called New Phillips High School, the school was renamed in honor of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable--a black man who was Chicago’s first permanent settler in the 1780s--shortly after its ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel made it official with a landmark plaque for DuSable High school, the city' first high school built for African Americans. "Mayor Harold Washington graduated from here, Dinah ...

Two history-making female high school football coaches were honored Monday. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South Suburbs NW Indiana Welcome, Mickey ...

Fenger beats DuSable in historic first matchup between female head football coaches According to the Illinois High School Association — which checked with the National Federation of State High ...

Chicago DuSable got no credit and no consideration from Chicago Dunbar, which slammed the door 95-8 in an Illinois boys basketball matchup. The last time Chicago Dunbar and Chicago DuSable played ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For the first time, two high school football teams coached by women faced off against each other. That has never happened before anywhere in the country, according to the Illinois ...

Chicago Bowen unveiled a blanketing defense and threw it all over Chicago DuSable in a 2-0 shutout for an Illinois high school football victory on October 1. Recently on September 23, Chicago ...