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Whitney M. Young Magnet High School
School in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School is a public four-year magnethigh school and middle school located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Opened on September 3, 1975, as a public magnet high school, joining Lane Tech in that designation. Named after Whitney Young, a prominent African-American civil rights leader, the school is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district.[3]
History
The school is located between the present day University of Illinois Chicago campus and a string of city blocks that were burnt out during the riots following the assassination of Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.[4]
Construction on the school's buildings were completed in 1974[5] and Whitney Young opened for the 1975–1976 school year on September 3, 1975, as a selective enrollment school under the leadership of the school's first principal, Berna
