(Click event for more details) Decatur County Middle School serves students in grades 5-8 in Decatur County. DCMS opened to students for the first time in August 2000. Decatur County Middle School was established as a consolidation of students from Decaturville Elementary and Parsons Junior High School.
Famous Negro Leaguers are on each base with legendary Satchel Paige at the mound. Paige, of course, grew up in Kansas City â not far from 18th and Vine. The velvety saxophone playing Kansas City's Charlie Parker pipes over a speaker, drawing visitors into the Jazz Museum. The first glass case holds a shiny white saxophone that Charlie Parker once played at the famous Massey Hall concert in Toronto.
Chicago is known by a plethora of nicknames, including âThe Windy Cityâ, âChi-Townâ, the âSecond Cityâ, âChicagolandâ, and in a play on New Yorkâs nickname, âThe Big Onion.â In a poem by Carl Sandberg which was published in 1916 titled âChicago,â he refers to the city as âCity of the Big Shoulders.â