much remodeled, as a comfortable house on Greenwood Avenue. Blue Island hosted a number of educational conferences during the 1850s, and because of this (and through the influence of Benjamin Sanders, whose tenure with the Cook County Board was during that time) Chicago State University was founded in Blue Island in 1867 as the Cook County Normal (or Teacher's) School in the classrooms of the old Whittier School building on Vermont Street. This arrangement lasted until 1870, when the new campus for the college was completed in what is now the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago on of land that was donated by L. W. Beck for the purpose in 1868. The public school district as a legal entity (now Cook County School District 130) was established in 1887, and the current high school district (Community High School District 218) was created in 1927, replacing earlier versions from 1897 and 1903. Blue Island Community High School (now Dwight D. Eisenhower High School) was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (now North Central Association – Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement) in 1899. As president of Columbia University, Eisenhower was the keynote speaker at the dedication of the new facility on Sacramento Avenue for Blue Island Community High School in 1951, and the building was renamed in his honor in 1962. A portion of Blue Island is within the Posen-Robbins School District 143½. Elementary and middle schools Most residents of Blue Island live within the boundaries of Cook County School District 130. The grade school district serves not only Blue Island, but also much of Crestwood, some of Robbins and a fraction of Alsip. Residents in the far Southeast of the city have students who attend Calumet Public School District 132. There are no schools from District 132 within the Blue Island boundary. District 130 Boundaries: Blue Island: 123rd Street and 119th Streets (south sides only); Westside of Division Crestwood: Eastside of Central Avenue; 139th Street to the Turnpike (north sides only) Crestwood/Alsip: 127th Street Robbins/Blue Island: North side of 135th Street Name changes: Greenwood School → Blue Island Community High School Freshman Building → Everett Kerr School → Veterans Memorial School (2015) What is now called Greenwood School is not the original (which is located on the corner of 123rd St. and Greenwood Street)(Currently inactive) Blue Island Community High School → Eisenhower Freshman Campus → Everett