Bloom High School - Bloom Yearbook (Chicago Heights, IL)

Page 15 text:

When the great industrial boom of 1890 occurred, thi young giant, Chicago, burst its bands, and Bloom became, ouer night, a busy hustling city. Then commenced the mushroom growth of what is now Chicago Heights with its seventy factories and flourishing banks. A .J ri Ti. » I The first school was built in IS36. About 1850. a small school, known as the North school, was constructed. In 1901 , the first township high school was finished, on the site, where now looms the massive and beautiful Bloom Township High School, overlooking the cross-roads of the great national highways, — The Lincoln and Dixie.

Page 14 text:

Twentu-seven mites soulh of Chicago there arew, in 1835, a little countru village along the Chicago Road, the former Sauk Trail. Here were gabled houses and Well kept farms. In-, 18S6. the first school house was established which afterward became known as the Little white school house. ' In 1865, the Jacob Kirgis home was established as the National Hotel. This hotel opened its hospitable doors to the many early travelers going south on the Chicago and Vincennes road, now the Dixie Highway. On Sundays the church bell of the Little White Church called those early settlers, the descendants of Covamnter forefathers, to worship within its walls.

Page 16 text:

TRADITIONAL EAST DOOR