Cooley High

Preach, an aspiring playwright and Cochise, All-city basketball champion are best friends who are both celebrating the final weeks of their senior year with their classmates at Edwin G. Cooley Vocational High School on Chicago's Near-North Side. The group end up at Lincoln Park Zoo where they spend the day stealing snacks from the concession stand and antagonizing animals. Cochise learns via mail that he received a basketball scholarship to attend Grambling State University. Preach is shooting dice with two guys from the neighborhood; Stone and Robert. During the dice game, they encounter one of Preach's classmates, Brenda who