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Englewood Technical Prep Academy (Chicago) or sometimes referred to as simply Englewood High School (Chicago), part of the Chicago Public School system, serves the Englewood community on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. The school will graduate its last class of 151 students in June 2008. There are two new schools currently using the same building: Urban Prep and Team Englewood. The exact location of the campus is +41° 46' 52.61", -87° 38' 4.38
[edit] Notable alumni
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first African-American woman to win Pulitzer Prize
- Oscar Brown, Jr., singer-songwriter
- Gene Chandler, singer-songwriter
- members of the doo-wop group The Eldorados
- Walter Roger Brown, former NBA basketball player
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun
- Patricia Roberts Harris, attorney
- Richard Hunt, internationally renown sculptor
- Robert Lawrence, first African-American astronaut
- DeMario Johnson, Software Developer
- Don Myrick, saxophonist, The Pharoahs, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Phenix Horns
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