Skokie School District 69 history

The School Garden Club formed by Alma Klehm (third from left) about 1910

Six elementary schools were operating within the present boundaries of the village by the time high school classes were inaugurated in Niles Center in 1931.

The building that became known as Niles Township East, and served as the township’s first high school, was not dedicated until 1939.

A 16-acre tract of land in Skokie was purchased in 1957 and three modern buildings were erected on the new campus.

Two new high school buildings were built, Niles Township West, in 1958, and Nile Township North, a few years later.

Historic Niles Township East was closed in 1975, eventually serving as the home for Centre East as well as the Skokie campus of Oakton Community College.

The Skokie Advisory Committee, composed of a number of school board officials and area homeowners, successfully lobbied at the state capital in Springfield in 1979 to create a Skokie Campus.

Since its start in 1980, Oakton College East, as the full-service Skokie extension campus of Oakton Community College is known, has had a growing impact on the community.

When a second phase of construction was completed in 1983 at the Des Plaines campus, more resources were moved to the main campus.

He has been part of the Skokie and Niles Township community since 1985, when he started as a reporter for Pioneer Press, covering Skokie.

She and her husband have lived in Skokie since 1986 and raised two daughters here.

In 1987, the Cook County Clerk’s Tax Extension Office released a study of the tax rates of the 26 suburban high school districts in the county.

Much of District 65 is in Evanston, including only those portions of Skokie east of Crawford Avenue and north of Greenleaf Street. (Fairview North closed in June 1988.)

He was a member of the original steering committee of the Skokie Community Fund in 2014 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since that time.