Chicago Lab school is one of the top private schools in Chicago. Tuition is $20k.
“Although vastly outnumbered by the area’s public high schools, Chicago’s private high schools figure prominently in the history and development of the city and suburbs. West Chicago’s Wheaton Academy, first established (by abolitionists) as the Illinois Institute, has been around since 1853. Chicago’s first public high school wouldn’t open until 1856, at Halsted and Monroe streets. St. Patrick, the city’s oldest Catholic high school, came along a year later, setting up shop at Adams and Desplaines streets. And some of the country’s most forward-looking educators—such as Francis W. Parker and John Dewey—found in Chicago the ideal laboratory in which to test and implement their innovative ideas.
As demonstrated by the accompanying chart—where readers will find listed Wheaton Academy, St. Pat’s, Francis Parker, and Dewey’s University of Chicago Lab Schools—that local tradition of private high schools still thrives today.”
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2007/Comparing-Private-High-Schools/
Just because you put your kids in a top ranked school that costs more than 90% of Americans can afford and you drop your daughter off with a five SUV convoy doesn’t mean that you’re an elitist!