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    Whitney M. Young Magnet High School is a public four-year magnet high school and middle school located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois...
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    also been named after him. Schools named after Young include Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, Whitney M. Young Gifted & Talented Leadership...
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  • Whitney Young High School may refer to: Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago Whitney M. Young Gifted & Talented Leadership Academy in Cleveland...
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    raised in Chicago, where she attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School until 2010. Upon graduating from high school, she entered Stanford University, where...
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  • Marcus Jordan (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    led the school to the conference championship and the best season in school history. Jordan transferred to Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago...
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    interested in a media career while attending Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. After graduating from high school, Adams attended the University of Missouri...
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  • novelist. He is of Irish and Jewish descent. He graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in 2004 and with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater at the...
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    Jahlil Okafor (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    basketball in Chicago, Illinois for Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, where he earned high school national player of the year awards from McDonald's...
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    Craig Robinson (actor) (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Side of Chicago, and was brought up Methodist. He attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Illinois State...
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  • DJ Steward (category McDonald's High School All-Americans)
    finished his high school career at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, Illinois. Steward first attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois...
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    Quentin Richardson (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Chicago, Illinois to Lee and Emma Richardson where he attended Whitney Young High School. In 1998, he led the Dolphins to the state AA title. In 2006,...
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    Michelle Obama (redirect from M. obama)
    She attended Whitney Young High School, Chicago's first magnet high school, established as a selective enrollment school, where she was a classmate of...
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  • The Wachowskis (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Wachowskis attended the Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago's Beverly area, and graduated from Whitney Young High School, known for its performing arts and science...
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    John Tobias (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    interested in drawing from an early age, inspired by comic books. During high school he took weekend courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was an artist...
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    Sharif Atkins (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater Northwestern University (BA) Occupation Actor Years active 1996–present Spouse Bethany Hotchkiss ​ (m. 2014)​ Children 3...
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  • Javon Freeman-Liberty (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Academy in South Holland, Illinois. After the school closed, he transferred to Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, Illinois. As a junior, Freeman-Liberty...
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  • Russell Maryland (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he played high school football at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. He was not highly recruited, and the only major...
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    Tonya Pinkins (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Retrieved January 16, 2024. Isherwood, Charles (June 19, 2014). "To Be Young, Besieged and Black". The New York Times. Retrieved January 16, 2024. Soloski...
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    Jackson, and Ashley, his younger siblings. Jackson attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, where he was a student-athlete. He attended his...
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    up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. He attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. Mensa began his career when he formed a band called Kids...
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    Franklin was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School.[citation needed] He has a daughter with his first wife Sheila...
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  • Ethan Stoller (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Ethan Stoller is an American composer, music editor and producer from Chicago, Illinois. Stoller's first film score was for the independently produced...
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  • Chicago with her family when she was nine. She attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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  • Whitney M. Young School (formerly known as Whitney Young Gifted Education Campus, Whitney Young High School or Whitney M. Young Gifted & Talented Leadership...
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  • M. Brown and Liz Colburn. She was a graduate of Whitney M. Young Magnet High School and Governors State University, with a master's degree in school counseling...
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    Joan Higginbotham (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    Higginbotham was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Whitney Young Magnet High School, graduating in 1982. She received a Bachelor of Science degree...
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    Katrina Adams (category Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni)
    years old. She attended Whitney Young High School, becoming the Illinois High School Association’s first Chicago Public School and first African American...
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    Jacqueline. Jackson attended John J. Pershing Elementary School and Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, where she was a National Merit Scholar....
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  • performing career at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, where he was in dance classes with Michelle Obama. After high school, he eventually became...
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  • and high grades and test scores in order for applicants to be accepted. Other selective-enrollment schools in Chicago include Whitney M. Young Magnet High...
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