I was a student at Washburn, back in 1977. I took the auto mechanics class, for a full year of training,the class only cost one hundred and twenty five dollars. Washburn was part of the Chicago school system so the students had to live in city limits, I can still remember most of the students, from my group. We were from all parts of the city, but we all worked and learned together.

I took a welding class there in 1959. Seems to me it later became Cooley High School.?? Correct me.
Geo.

A neighbor, Ed Wodniakowski, who lived a couple houses down, used to teach refrigeration at Washburne. He was a really nice man, I remember he showed me how to recharge the air conditioning on my 1973 Chrylser. He passed away quite a few years ago.

@ Thimmaker, "The original Lane Tech became Cooley High School, and was eventually torn down". I read this in an article by,

The world's biggest high school
September 17, 2012
By: John R. Schmidt

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/john-r-schmidt/2012-09/worlds-biggest-high-school-102301


Cooley High, which sat on Division and Orleans until it was demolished in the 1980s



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Was Washburn an alternative to high school or was it a post high school education ? Did Washburn close or move? I remember there was setto between Harold Washington and the Unions when he tried to pack the school with politico friends.

Here's an article on Washburn Trade School from Forgotten Chicago.

http://forgottenchicago.com/articles/the-last-days-of-washburne/

Interesting name-changes. My father lived near Division & Orleans, and would have gone to Cooley (fmr. Lane). Somehow, he instead ended up at (new) Lane, but also took a few classes at Washburne on Division.

WayOutWardell Wrote:
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> Interesting name-changes. My father lived near
> Division & Orleans, and would have gone to Cooley
> (fmr. Lane). Somehow, he instead ended up at
> (new) Lane, but also took a few classes at
> Washburne on Division.

My Dad attended the old Lane, and was a member briefly of the ROTC; he said that part of his uniform had to include a puttee "a strip of cloth for covering the lower part of the leg from the ankle to the knee;" in the World War 1 fashion.



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Another article I forgot to mention by, (some nice photos of the place as well)

The ruins and sundry of Washburne Trade School
Posted on September 1, 2014 by repowers2



https://achicagosojourn.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/the-ruins-and-sundry-of-washburne-trade-school/

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