Harry S Truman College celebrates 70 years!

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Truman College Marks Seventy Years

Over the past seven decades, Harry S. Truman College “evolved from a small night-school initiative to serving thousands of students each year,” marks Uptown Update. The college was established in 1956 “as a two-year evening college operating out of Amundsen High School.” The college moved to its Uptown location in 1976, with its main building designed by John Moutoussamy, a “pioneering modernist architect and the first Black architect to design a high-rise in Chicago.”

Read about it and more in New City: https://www.newcity.com/2026/10/20/today-in-culture-tuesday-october-20-2026-the-salt-sheds-expansion-plans-benton-before-beatlemania-the-star-of-open-house-chicago-2026/