In the year 1910 the Seventh-Day Adventist denomination organized a church and purchased property at 22^nd Street and Cermak Road to erect a college. For many years the school served as a training place for missionary workers, many of whom have gone out to the ends of the earth. In 1934 the college work was transferred to Emmanuel Missionary College (later Andrews University) at Berrien Springs, Michigan.

A work school was established, the Broadview Academy.  It taught the manufacturing of furniture until it burned down in late February 1940. 

The West Suburban Consolidated Seventh-day Adventist School is a long name for an elementary school which under its present name had its beginning in 1947. It was located as a new building on 24^th Avenue and Cermak Road in Broadview, Illinois.  In 1958 the state condemned the property of the school to widen Cermak Road and construct an overpass. This meant that a new school must be constructed.  A lot on the corner of 25^th Avenue and Cermak Road was made available to the school by the Broadview Academy and the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, covering an entire block.  They broke ground on May 22, 1958 and moved into the school in November, 1959. An open House for the community was advertised for February 15, 1959.

The church is located just south of the former school on 25^th Avenue.

Sources were used in the compilation of this entry include but are not limited to:

• Broadview Golden Jubilee -- 1914 to 1964, Articles by Val Koch, published by the Village of Broadview

Last Modified:  08/07/2003