Corliss High School
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George Henry Corliss High School is a public
4-year high school
located in Pullman
neighborhood of Chicago
, Illinois
, USA. It is part of the Chicago Public Schools
. The school is named in the honor of engineer George Henry Corliss
. The school's sports teams are nicknamed the Trojans. Corliss is divided into three sub-units of approximately 690 students.
Public
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4-year high school
High school
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located in Pullman
Pullman, Chicago
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neighborhood of Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, USA. It is part of the Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools, commonly abbreviated as CPS by local residents and politicians and officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, is a large school district that manages over 600 public elementary and high schools in Chicago, Illinois...
. The school is named in the honor of engineer George Henry Corliss
George Henry Corliss
George Henry Corliss was an American mechanical engineer and inventor, who developed the Corliss steam engine, which was a great improvement over any other stationary steam engine of its time. The Corliss engine is widely considered one of the more notable engineering achievements of the 19th...
. The school's sports teams are nicknamed the Trojans. Corliss is divided into three sub-units of approximately 690 students.
- House A - Walter Payton Academy
- House B - Nathaniel Douglas Academy
- House C - R.I.S.E Academy.