Capping off the 2022-23 academic year, 49 current and recent high school graduates hailing from Chicago’s South and West sides have received $215,600 (total) in financial scholarships granted by Union League Boys & Girls Clubs, it was announced late May. Twenty-four (24) recent high school graduates, in addition to 25 currently enrolled students, representing the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Columbia College Chicago, among others, are on the road to success thanks in part to the financial and developmental support provided by the students’ involvement in Union League Boys & Girls Clubs serving the Pilsen, West Town, Humboldt Park, South Lawndale, and Englewood communities, among others. In addition to this financial assistance (in the form of individual scholarships ranging from $3400 to $6800), Club members have cited the invaluable academic, moral, and emotional support provided by their experience at the Union League Boys & Girls Clubs.  The 2023 high school graduates hail from Roberto Clemente Community Academy, William H. Wells Community Academy, and Major Hector P. Garcia School among others. They credit the academic tutoring and guidance on college applications, along with the skills gained from the Clubs’ after-school arts activities, sports teams, and STEM programming, with providing them the encouragement to pursue advanced education, in some cases, as the first in their family to do so.

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