the Illinois General Assembly, the Lower West Side is in the 1st Legislative District, represented by Democrat Tony Munoz in the Illinois Senate, and the 2nd House district, represented by Democrat Theresa Mah in the Illinois House of Representatives. Education Residents are zoned to Chicago Public Schools. Benito Juarez Community Academy, located in the Lower West Side, serves much of it. Other parts are zoned to Thomas Kelly High School. Lower West Side is home to the following educational institutions: Josiah L. Pickard Elementary School Jungman Elementary School Irma C. Ruiz Elementary School Jose Clemente Orozco Community Academy Peter Cooper Duo Language Academy Cristo Rey Jesuit High School – private, Jesuit 9-12 school of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Gads Hill Center – nonprofit youth and adult education center Rudy Lozano Library – Chicago Public Library branch Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy – charter high school Instituto Justice and Leadership Academy – alternative high school St. Ann School - Catholic, pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school St. Pius V School - Catholic, pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school St. Procopius School – Catholic, dual language elementary school Whittier Dual Language Community School – pre-kindergarten through 8 school John A. Walsh Elementary School History of education Prior to the 1970s, Pilsen residents attended Jungman Elementary School for grades 1–6; Cooper School, adjacent to Jungman, for grades 7–8; Froebel School for grades 9-10, and Harrison Technical High School in South Lawndale for grades 11–12. Jungman opened in 1903. In 1914 an addition was installed. The building was converted into a junior high school in 1933 due to a decision by the Chicago Board of Education. It later became a branch of Harrison Tech, and then in 1947 a branch of Walsh Elementary. Froebel served as a branch for Harrison Tech due to overcrowding on the main campus; it was originally an elementary school. Teresa Fraga, Mary Gonzales and Raquel Guerrero are the three founding mothers of Benito Juarez Community High School. In the late 1960s, the three mothers shared concerns for their own children when the only public high school available was Harrison High school. Harrison High School was located in a neighborhood plagued with gang violence and racial tension between African Americans and Mexican Americans. The mothers wanted a safe and conducive school for Spanish speaking students. The school was proposed to Chicago's Board of Education multiple times but ultimately rejected. This led to