Welcome to Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School

Welcome to Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School, offering half-day programs for 2 1/2-, 3- and 4-year-olds. This site will provide you with basic information about our school... learn about our mission and philosophy, what a co-op is, meet teachers and staff and learn about the many events we hold each year.

In 1949, early childhood education was a new idea; the idea of a school for such, created by parents and run cooperatively as a non-profit corporation, was even newer. Yet such a preschool took root and flourished in one of Chicago's oldest–yet in many ways newest-neighborhoods.

"See us in the Chicago Tribune" - March 2005

See the photo gallery of our TP day - 2008

From the first half-dozen pioneering families who housed the classes in community churches, LPCNS grew through the years in response to neighborhood needs. Since 1975, the school has owned its own building in the Old Town neighborhood, and in 1976 one of LPCNS's first graduates enrolled his son. The Co-op is licensed by the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago and, since 1986, has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

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