O'Toole, Luke O'Toole Elementary School

About O'Toole, Luke O'Toole Elementary School

Luke O'Toole, who was born in Ireland in 1850 and came to the United States at age eighteen.  He worked for the Armour Company and took an active civic role in the Town of Lake, his home for sixty years. He sat on the School Board of the Town of Lake and served as the town's postmaster. One of his sons, William O'Toole, became a Chicago alderman. Luke O'Toole owned a saloon at 47th and Halsted, which was a popular meeting place for politicians. Ole A. Thorp, chairman of the committee on naming Chicago's schools urged the removal of Luke O'Toole's name from the school because he owned a saloon. 

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O'Toole Class of '58 Fiftieth Reunion

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 1:38am — lynettewilliams

On July 6, 2008, several O'Toole grads from the class of January, 1958 met for the first time since graduating from Harper, 46 years ago. Left to right: Ken Thomson, Bob Sullivan, Ellen Smith-Cunningham, Bill and Kathy Bien (Harper grads but not from O'Toole), Lynette Gain-Williams, CherylGabriel-Klaassen, Mary Ann Pollett (currently Dr.

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