Loretto Academy (Chicago)

The school was established by the Loreto Sisters and opened in August 1906.^[1] The school admitted its first African-American students in 1949.^[2] As Woodlawn's demographics changed in the 1950s, the school's did as well.^[3] By 1960, it had only ten Euro-American students and by the early 1970s it had a completely African-American student body.^[3][2] The school closed in 1972.^[2] The building was sold to the Woodlawn Community Development Corporation and served as substance abuse treatment center called Entry House.^[1][4][5] Entry House closed in 2012,^[5] and the building was sold at a foreclosure auction on October 28, 2019.^[6] It was included in Preservation Chicago's 7 Most Endangered list in 2019.^[1]