The Chicago World Language Academy was opened in 1894 to serve children from the crowded tenement community surrounding the Polk Street Station port of entry for immigrants.
In 1988, the Chicago World Language Academy moved into a new and up-to-date facility.
[1] That location, a century prior, had been the first West Side Park, home of the baseball club now known as the Chicago Cubs.
The Andrew Jackson Language Academy was renamed to The Chicago World Language Academy in May 2020 due to concerns of being associated with Andrew Jackson,[2] who participated in the slave trade and owned over 300 slaves in his lifetime.
[3] The Chicago World Language Academy offers kindergarten through eighth grade.