Please check your inbox for your confirmation. At Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Bronzeville, a short bit of music plays just before the bell rings: a snippet of the 1920s jazz standard ...

"We do everything together," Phillips Academy receiver/safety Quayvon Skanes says. "We're basically family." It's a focused and determined family. Undefeated Wendell Phillips is only the second ...

You have to finish what you start," said Michael Mancini, English and Special Education teacher at Wendell Phillips Academy High School. Four times a week, Mancini trains for a marathon.