Nazareth Academy Students Advance To History Fair City Finals

LA GRANGE PARK, IL — Twelve U.S. History Honors students from Nazareth Academy had their History Fair project move on to the Metro City Finals event at University of Illinois Chicago on April 12. According to the school, winners from the city finals will advance to the state finals.

The school said juniors in Mrs. Hawkins’ U.S. History Honors classes were charged with creating research
papers, documentaries or exhibits focused on one subject in Chicago or Chicago suburban history. During the course of this project, students spend approximately five months working individually or in groups to create historical research projects.

The six advancing projects range from documentaries about the Chicago Meat Industry, the Illinois & Michigan Canal and Daniel Sotomayor, to exhibits about the Negro Travel Green Book and Cancer Research, to a research paper about Florence Kelley, the school said.

The students chosen to move forward are:

• Kate Howard of Clarendon Hills; Research Paper; Florence Kelley and the Battle Against Child Labor
• Eduardo Carrasco of Berwyn and Pat Uphues of Berwyn; Exhibits; Follow The Green Book Road
• Gigi Kinsella of Western Springs and Shannon Sullivan of Western Springs; Exhibits; Leon Jacobson's Development of Cancer Treatments
• Eddie Olewinski of Westchester, Isabella Perez of Berwyn and Jenna Kozak of Berwyn; Documentaries; Meat the Industry
• James Fairchild of La Grange Park, Documentaries; The Illinois & Michigan Canal and its Impact on Chicago's History
• Christian Cano of Berwyn, Grace D'Onofrio of Clarendon Hills, and Klavdia Georges of Burr Ridge; Documentaries; Daniel Sotomayor: The Fight Against AIDS

Photo provided by Nazareth Academy.