Whitney M. Young Magnet High School
State school in Chicago, IllinoisWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
Tonya BabichHOST
That'd be pretty cold.
Tonya BabichHOST
The swim test is at Whitney Young High School.
Terrell BrownHOST
Just love how we're just going to skip winter.
Terrell BrownHOST
We're already looking forward to next summer.
Patti VasquezHOST
Oh, well, yeah, we were rivals for sure.
Patti VasquezHOST
I want to ask you, well, I'll ask you off the air about when you graduated, but no, Whitney Young is one of the great schools, and I mean, what a legacy, and also to have Michelle Obama as an alum.
Patti VasquezHOST
I
Lisa Nagatomo-TimmsGUEST
graduated in the same
Maya ReeseGUEST
But yeah, I would just say I grew up in Chicago.
Maya ReeseGUEST
I went to Whitney Young.
Maya ReeseGUEST
Okay.
Maya ReeseGUEST
Shout out to the Dolphins.
Maya ReeseGUEST
I didn't go there, but all
Larvetta L. Loftin-ArnoldHOST
my friends did.
Larvetta L. Loftin-ArnoldHOST
OK. OK.
Maya ReeseGUEST
Yeah.
Tonya BabichHOST
No floaties.
Tonya BabichHOST
It's happening at Whitney Young High School.
Tonya BabichHOST
Got it.
Tonya BabichHOST
Appropriately the home of the Dolphins.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
So they started out, they both went to, let's see, they grew up in Chicago.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
They went to the Whitney Young Magnet High School, which is one of those like artist performing arts type high schools.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
Um, there's like, there's that one in Philly where like boys to men and Tupac went.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
Um, there's a couple in Manhattan where all the famous were like a bunch of famous people's kids go.
Hilario DominguezGUEST
Yeah, I know, exactly.
Hilario DominguezGUEST
Um, but I went to Galileo Scholastic Academy, and then, uh, went to Whitney Young High School.
Patti VasquezHOST
Okay, Dolphin.
Hilario DominguezGUEST
Yeah.
Patti VasquezHOST
That's it.
Patti VasquezHOST
[laughs]
Hilario DominguezGUEST
I'm one of those Dolphin cultists.
Patti VasquezHOST
I'm a l- I went to Lane Tech, so there we go.
Hilario DominguezGUEST
Yeah, I know, exactly.
Hilario DominguezGUEST
But I went to Galileo Scholastic Academy and then went to Whitney Young High School.
Patti VasquezHOST
Okay, dolphin.
Patti VasquezHOST
That's it.
Tom HaughHOST
Every time you do something, you owe it to yourself and the people around you to think a little forward and find out what the repercussions of your decision just may be, good and bad.
Tom HaughHOST
And when Chicago years ago started to do these magnet schools, right, the first one was Whitney Young, then now there's Jones and there's Payton, and these are spectacular institutions where you've got to take the tests to get everything.
Tom HaughHOST
The first time I heard about this, and this is not blowing smoke up my behind, right, the first time I heard about this and I go, wait a minute, if all the smart kids are going to be able to pile out of the other schools into these places, What are we going to do with the other schools? Are they just going to be where all the dummies reside? Are we going to keep our...
Tom HaughHOST
Are tech programs up? No, we're going to get rid of those at the same time.