The Illinois Constitution requires the State to provide for an efficient system of high quality
public educational institutions and services in order to achieve the educational
development of all persons to the limits of their capabilities.
The General Assembly has implemented this mandate through the creation of school
districts. The District is governed by the laws for school districts having a population of
not fewer than 1,000 and not more than 500,000.
The Board of Education constitutes a body corporate that possesses all the usual powers of
a corporation for public purposes, and in that name may sue and be sued, purchase, hold
and sell personal property and real estate, and enter into such obligations as are authorized
by law.
The corporate name of this school district is Cook County School District 39.
Adopted: January 20, 1998
Revised: May, 23, 2016; November 15, 2021