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Mansueto High School

2016 establishments in IllinoisAC with 0 elementsEducational institutions established in 2016Noble Network of Charter SchoolsPublic high schools in Chicago

Mansueto High School is a Level +1 public four-year charter high school located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. It is located at West 47th street between Richmond and Mozart street in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago. It is named after donors Joe and Rika Mansueto. Mansueto High School opened in 2016 at a temporary location (51st and Keeler) while its permanent building was under construction. The architectural firm, Wheeler and Kearns partnered with contractors, Bulley and Andrews, to construct the school. Mansueto opened at its permanent location in August 2017. In 2018, the school's design received a Brick in Architecture Award. The site was the former location of the RC bottling plant.

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Mansueto High School
West 47th Place, Chicago Brighton Park

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60632 Chicago, Brighton Park
Illinois, United States
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The Brighton Park crossing is a major railroad crossing in Chicago, Illinois, hosting three major freight railroads. The crossing is northwest of the intersection of Western Avenue and Archer Avenue, in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The railroads involved in the crossing are CSX, Canadian National and Norfolk Southern. The crossing consists of the CN's two-track Joliet Subdivision in a roughly east–west orientation intersecting five north–south tracks operated by NS and CSX. Collectively, these railroads operate approximately 80 trains per day through the crossing. The junction is visible from the CTA Orange Line trains that pass on an elevated structure immediately southeast of the crossing. The CN line was formerly the main line of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio and its predecessor Alton Railroad, and this location hosted the GM&O's Brighton Park passenger stop. The line currently carries Metra Heritage Corridor commuter trains to Joliet and Amtrak passenger trains to St. Louis. Metra formerly operated a Brighton Park station located near the crossing, but this station was closed in 1984.Until July 6, 2007, the crossing was controlled by a human switchtender in a cabin near the crossing using semaphore signals to govern train movements through the diamonds. Because the crossing was not interlocked, all trains were required to make a stop before proceeding over the crossing as signaled by the specific semaphore signal governing the track the train was on. As a major crossing, and one of the few remaining locations with this classic method of operation, Brighton Park was a major attraction for rail enthusiasts, but had become increasingly inefficient for Chicago area rail operations. As part of the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program (CREATE) project, the Brighton Park crossing, the semaphore signals, and switchtender's cabin were taken out of service on the evening of Friday, July 6, 2007 and conversion to an interlocked crossing ensued over the following weekend. As part of the conversion project, some of the tracks at the crossing were realigned and new crossing diamonds were put in place.