Morgan Park Academy

Morgan Park Academy—first called Mt. Vernon Military and Classical Academy—was founded on a ridge above "Horse Thief Hollow" during Ulysses S. Grant's second term as president, just in time for the "Panic of 1873." It survived that economic dislocation—and a few others in its venerable history—and has endured and flourished as an independent school for well over a century."

"When William Rainey Harper became the founding president of the University of Chicago in 1892, the Academy became the non-sectarian, integrated, and co-ed (quite unusual for that time—although, the experiment did not survive the decade) preparatory school for the university. It was located in suburban Morgan Park, on land purchased in part from the Illinois Military Academy, and was given a new name: Morgan Park Academy of the University of Chicago."

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