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Kenwood Academy
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- 5015 South Blackston Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- (773) 535-1350
- (773) 535-1408 (fax)
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The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began the planning process to build Kenwood Academy, then called Kenwood High School, in November 1965. With Northern big cities undergoing the final years of the baby boom, the CPS felt the need for a modernized new high school on Chicago's South Side. The high school was sited on 51st Street and Lake Park, near the Illinois Central Railroad, and was built in 1967-1969. The address is 5100 S. Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615. The school's campus is shared with Canter Middle School (formerly Louis Wirth Elementary School). The school is bounded by East Hyde Park Boulevard on the south, South Lake Park Avenue on the east, South Blackstone Avenue on the west, and East 50th Street on the north. The school's football field, however, extends the campus north to East 49th Street along South Lake Park Avenue. [1]
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