Lake View High School is a public four-year high school located in the Lake View neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Lake View is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. While the current building opened in 1886, the school itself opened in 1874, dating to a time when the Lake View community was not a part of the city of Chicago. Lake View became a part of Chicago in 1889. Created when the Lake View area was its own township before it joined Chicago, the school is the oldest operating township secondary school in the state of Illinois.
Parts of the film My Bodyguard were filmed at Lake View High School.
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Academics and activities
Lake View High School earned a bronze medal in the U.S. News/School Matters Best High School rankings.
The school offers approximately 20 clubs and activities for students. Among those which are chapters or branches of nationally notable organizations are National Honor Society and Key Club.
Athletics
Lake View competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL), and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Wildcats. The boys' track & field team finished second at the first IHSA State Meet in 1892–93, and its boys' soccer team finished fourth in the IHSA State Tournament in 2008–09.
In the years before World War Two, the school had a fifty-foot rifle range in the basement and fielded a rifle team.
Feeder patterns
K-8 schools which feed into Lake View include Audubon, Bell, Blaine, Burley, Greeley, Hamilton, Jahn, Nettelhorst, and Schneider.
Notable alumni
Albin Garfield Anderson, medical missionary who spent 30 years caring for patients in Korea
Clarence Applegran, football player who played for the Detroit Heralds in 1920
Lee Balterman, photographer of ballet, sports and Chicago street scenes
Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist, radio personality and actor; father of actress Candice Bergen
Barbara Bedford, actress in films from 1920 to 1945
Tom Bosley, Tony Award-winning actor, best known for his work on television (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries and Murder, She Wrote)
Alfred Caldwell, landscape architect
Shirley Bell Cole, radio actress, best known for portraying Little Orphan Annie
Naomi Pollard Dobson, librarian and educator, first Black woman to graduate from Northwestern University
Moses Gomberg, chemist
Myron Hunt, architect whose work included the Rose Bowl
Leo Koretz, lawyer and stockbroker who ran an elaborate Ponzi scheme
Mark LaValle, Olympic weightlifter
Vince Lawrence, platinum award-winning dance music producer, businessman and a leading innovator of house music
Joe Mooshil, former Associated Press sportswriter and speaker on The Sportswriters on TV