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Bloom High School is a public school in Chicago Heights, Illinois. It is part of Bloom Township High School District 206.
The school was founded in 1900. A second Chicago Heights high school, Bloom Trail, was established in 1976 to offset overcrowding.[1] Since 1995, however, Bloom and Bloom Trail have shared the same sports programs, drawing from over 3,000 students[2][3] in grades 9-12.
The present Bloom High School building, erected during the Great Depression, was named to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982. It is an Art Deco structure with six WPA murals.[4]
[edit] Alumni
Notable alumni include sports mogul Jerry Colangelo, baseball player and author Jim Bouton, LPGA Hall of Fame golfer Carol Mann, Olympic bronze-medal pole vaulter Jan Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David S. Broder, NFL San Francisco 49ers lineman Bryant Young, award-winning newspaper columnist Mike Downey, and sports radio talk-show host Terry Boers.[3]
