Lincoln-Way North High School

Lincoln-Way North High School, or LWN, was a public four-year high school located approximately one mile south of Interstate 80 at the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Vollmer Road in Frankfort, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, in the United States. LWN was part of Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210, which also includes Lincoln-Way East High School, Lincoln-Way Central High School, and Lincoln-Way West High School.Lincoln-Way North drew students from Tinley Park, Frankfort, Mokena, and Frankfort Square. Summit Hill School District 161 was the only feeder district for Lincoln-Way North High School. The school closed in June 2016 due to a school board vote.HistoryLincoln-Way North opened in 2008 after voters approved a $225 million building bond referendum to build two new high schools and update the two existing schools. Lincoln-Way West opened the following year and was designed similarly to North.LWN had been consistently been ranked among America's Best High Schools by both Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report and the high school had a 99 percent graduation rate with 80 percent of graduates attending post-secondary education.