Excerpt from The Emblem, 1912 Three years later, in 1896, the Cook County Normal School property, our present location, was given to the Board of Education to maintain as a normal school for the benefit of Chicago and Cook County. In this way, we are successors also to the old Cook County Normal School, which had been organized in 1867 at Blue Island and transferred to Englewood in 1869. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.