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High Jump in the News
Modern Luxury | Chicago Social - Spring Of Opportunity Benefit Raises Over 1 Million For High Jump Programs (October 2024)
WBEZ Chicago - Chicago education advocates on leading schools through the age of mass shootings (March 2023)
WBEZ Chicago - Change is coming to Chicago’s high-stakes, high-stress high school admissions process (October 2021)
Chicago Tribune - Op-ed: Teachers, principals and school staff should lead the charge to get students vaccinated (October 2021)
WBEZ Chicago - Vaccination Event at the Gary Comer Youth Center (July 2021)
NBC Chicago - As COVID Cases Rise, Community Leaders Look to Boost Vaccination Numbers (July 2021)
Chalkbeat Chicago - Will the Pandemic Reshape Chicago’s High-stress High School Applications? (April 2021)
ABC 7 Chicago - High Jump Alumna I'deyah Ricketts on ABC 7 Chicago Graduation 2020 Special "The After Party (June 2020)
Latin Magazine - Thirty Years and Still Rising: High Jump's Lasting Impact (Winter 2020)
U-High Midway - Education program gives students a boost (December 2019)
ABC 7 Chicago - High Jump program provides Chicago middle schoolers with tuition-free academic resources (July 2019)
Classic Chicago - High Jump Celebrates Young Leaders (May 2019)
Education Post - High Jump Alumnus DJ Loma Letter to First-Gen Students (May 2019)
BestColleges: How to Support First-Generation Students (May 2019)
Chalkbeat - Decision day: What happens when students don’t get their first-choice Chicago high school (April 2019)
Press Releases
High Jump Celebrates 35th Year of Equalizing Education and Maximizing Opportunity for Scholars (September 19, 2024)
High Jump Partners with Chicago Public Schools for Community Scholars (September 11, 2024)
High Jump Chicago’s Statement on Supreme Court’s Strike Down of Affirmative Action (June 30, 2023)
City of Chicago Announces Nonprofit Chi Biz Strong Grant Awardees (January 2022)
Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC) announces 2022 Class of Civic-Minded Leaders
CHICAGO, IL (July 20, 2021)
New York Life Foundation Awards $50,000 Grant to High Jump Program (July 2019)
For Media Inquiries
Contact Tammi Longsjo at tlongsjo@highjumpchicago.org or (312) 582-7713.