This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Thornton High history spans bricks and battles in Bloom
Thornton High School chronicles from 1920s opening of a freestanding gym across Broadway Avenue to 1970s shifts. It details athletic upgrades, wartime service flags, new wings, bond issues, community growth, and evolving enrollments as the district adds Thornridge and Thornwood, with notable events and figures shaping the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buda Manufacturing Co
Broadway Avenue
THS
Buda Gym
Elizabeth
Babe” Robinson
Amsterdam
Holland
Charles Price
Robinson
Isabel Montelius
Amelia Earhart
150Th Street
Purple X
Harvey
Franklin Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Thornton
National Honor Society
McVey
Clifford Maddox
A. V. Lockhart
Lou Boudreau
UHS
Harvey Tribune
Frank Froschauer
Lockhart
Theodore Birkhead
Ernest Hanson
James Beck
J. D. Logsdon
Thornioneers
Dalton
Thornridge High School
Thornridge
Dalton High School
Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School
Thornton and
Bloom
Township High School
TTHS
Omer Renfrow
Thorntoneers
KIP
Wildcats
Illinois
Thornton Community College
Hollies
Logsdon
William Augustus
Thornwood