Moving to Wilmette
Jesuit administrators from Loyola considered moving the Academy off of the University's Lake Shore Campus as early as 1929. However, the Great Depression ended those early discussions. In October 1946, laymen and priests petitioned Cardinal Stritch to open a Catholic high school for boys on the North Shore (the northern Chicago suburbs along Lake Michigan). After World War II, Loyola University enrollment increased, causing overcrowding on the Lake Shore Campus. By 1953, serious conversations about moving Loyola Academy were taking place. In 1955, the Cardinal gave the Academy permission to move to Wilmette. The new school building opened at Lake and Laramie streets in Wilmette on September 17, 1957. The Academy remains in that location to this day. It became co-educational in 1994.
