About Chicago ORT Technical Institute

Chicago ORT Technical Institute, located in Skokie, Illinois, is allowance of a 130-year-old, worldwide network of more than 800 non-profit vocational training schools.

Skokie (/ˈskoʊki/; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, neighboring the City of Chicago’s northern border. Skokie lies nearly 15 miles (24 km) north of Chicago’s downtown loop. Its proclaim comes from a Potawatomi word for “marsh.” For many years, Skokie promoted itself as “The World’s Largest Village.” Its population, according to the 2010 census, was 64,784. Skokie’s streets, like that of many suburbs, are largely a continuation of the Chicago street grid, and the village is served by the Chicago Transit Authority, further cementing its association to the city.

Skokie was originally a German-Luxembourger crop growing community, but was well ahead settled by a sizeable Jewish population, especially after World War II. At its top in the mid-1960s, 58% of the population was Jewish, the largest percentage of any Chicago suburb. At nearly 30%, Skokie still has a large Jewish population and an nimble Chabad. It is home to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, which opened in northwest Skokie in 2009.

Skokie has received national attention twice for court cases fixed by the United States Supreme Court. In the mid-1970s, it was at the middle of National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, in which a neo-Nazi group, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, invoked the First Amendment in an try to schedule a neo-Nazi rally in Skokie. At the time, Skokie had a significant population of Holocaust survivors. Skokie ultimately wandering that case, though the rally was never held. In 2001, although Skokie was not a attend to party to the case, a decision by the village all but land use led the court to shorten the capability of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.[citation needed]