Maine North High School
From Encyclopedia of Des Plaines
Maine Township High School North was a public high school at 9511 Harrison Street. It opened for the 1970-71 school year and closed at the end of the 1980-81 school year. Students remaining at the school transferred to Maine East or Maine West.
The school had two principals, Robert A. Wells (1970-1976) and A.K.H. Cochrane (1976-1981). Its yearbook was titled Saga. The newspaper was Polaris. The teams' nickname was the Norsemen.
The school contributed to the radio station WMTH with the other three District 207 schools.
From 1982 to 1984, the Chicago Blitz, a professional football team, used Maine North as a practice field.
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