Niles West High School, or NWHS, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in the United States. It is part of Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles North High School. Its feeder middle schools are Lincoln Junior High School (located in Skokie), Fairview South School (located in Skokie), Lincoln Hall Middle School (located in Lincolnwood), Culver Middle School (locat...
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Niles West High School, or NWHS, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in the United States. It is part of Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles North High School. Its feeder middle schools are Lincoln Junior High School (located in Skokie), Fairview South School (located in Skokie), Lincoln Hall Middle School (located in Lincolnwood), Culver Middle School (located in Niles), and Park View School (located in Morton Grove).
Niles West High School is built on a former wet land and its campus sits on over 70 acres (280,000 m) of land. The school opened in 1959. When Niles East High School closed, most of the students attending that school moved to Niles West.
At the 1970 graduation, student speaker Brandon Leavitt spoke out forcefully against the war in Vietnam. During his address in the outdoor football arena, the wires to the P.A. system were pulled - reportedly by a faculty member, silencing his...
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