Press Releases and Speeches

Success Stories – Rooted in Englewood

Chicago, IL - City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is launching a community pride campaign to celebrate the new Kennedy-King College as an anchor of the Englewood community.  The Success Stories – Rooted in Englewood billboard campaign features successful Chicagoans with roots in historic Englewood.

Renowned sculptor Richard Hunt; Health Commissioner of City of Chicago Dr. Terry Mason; Loop Capital Markets’ CEO Jim Reynolds; entrepreneur & historian Dempsey Travis; Sister 2 Sister magazine publisher Jamie Foster Brown and her sister Chicago Sun-Times columnist Stella Foster are featured on the billboards.

Other notables featured and still residing in Englewood include fourth generation resident, CCC Chancellor Wayne D. Watson and his father, Wade; Chicago’s first African-American Councilman Anna Langford and her son, Larry Langford, spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department; and community activist Henry Wilson.

Mayor Richard M. Daley is officiating at the ribbon-cutting ceremony today at 10:00 a.m.
at the campus located at 63rd and Halsted Streets in the heart of the reviving Englewood community.  A community grand opening is scheduled for August 21. 

The six-building state-of-the-art campus opened June 6 for the summer school session and is registering students now for fall 2007 classes.