Progressive Truck Driving School

This school remind me of the old Eastern Europe socialism. The owner of school acts like a dictator, with no respect for the student neither her employees. If I can give them 5 stars BELOW believe me I would. The whole Cicero facility is a big mess.
1/​over 60 student in one class, but wait for it. Here’s the good part (no instructions or teachers for most times)
2/​one bathroom for all students both males and females including the stuff and the employees. Sometimes you have to wait for 5 minutes to change your menstrual pads.
3/​old trucks, ooh let me rephrase it actually I mean antiques trucks.
4/​most instructors are mean, rude, just yelling most of the time. Wait for it, cause I’m not done yet (most of them with big accent that we don’t know what the hick they’re talking about at all time)
5/​this is my favorite, are you ready??? Well the school have double standards, if WIA grant is paying for your training than you’re Mom’s Gina favorite boy, other ways if you’re the 5% of student that paid cash with your hard working money, you’ll pushed at the end of the training courses, Abundant just like a bastard. Then they start their famous scam sucking your blood and your hard working $$$$$$$
And the list goes on and on…
PROGRESSIVE=== DEPRESSIVE

one star, but only to advice every one to please don’t go there, they will not train you, they give you 15 minutes of skills class and they record in there computer 2 hours, every hour cost $ 150.00 so they are tift.
they treat you like you are a begger, they are bad no customer service and no respect for the students. progressive is depressive and a total disaster.

Terrible customer service. I paid for initial tuition fee for someone else and when i came there to get a refund, they say they cant refund the transaction. All they want is your money. I am reporting this to BBB. This place needs to be shut down.

The Iraqi army is better organized than the staff at progressive and they treat you like your in middle school. They take on more students then their facility can hold and pack you in like rats. Look else where.

As a graduate of Progressive, who passed the CDL A exam, I recommend you not to patronize Progressive Driving School. Save yourself a giant headache and money by researching other schools and applying elsewhere.
There are a number of reasons why I discourage anyone from signing up with Progressive and why I regret having taken their course; a student is not guaranteed a CDL after taking any of their courses; additional testing starts at $ 400; the curriculum is set up so students are almost certain to fail the CDL exam; there is no real instruction given in the classroom time; the school is constantly flip-​flopping classroom instructors; students are required to buy a $ 70 book from Progressive that is not necessary for the course; students are required to sit through numerous recruiting sessions from Trucking companies like Schneider and Swift; a student will not be given a certificate of completion of the course until they apply to one of the recruiting companies; and the school performs random drug tests on their students while the student is enrolled in the program.
This school is a business, first and foremost. Making money is their main objective. Find a school that guarantees a CDL at graduation. Progressive is not one of them.

Can’t recommend not going here enough. NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL. They’re not organized. Often times you have to go to get driving training and they don’t have an instructor available. They take too many students and they don’t have enough instructors for all of them. You end up driving all the way out to Elgin and get there and they tell you there’s no time today for training because they don’t have an instructor available. They told us to go back to the class location on Belmont even though we had nothing left to do there. The trucks they show on their website are nothing like what they really have and they don’t have a bus either which is also shown on the website. The also added three weeks onto the end of my four week training period. They didn’t have enough time to complete the training and too many students. This place is only interested in bringing in as many students as possible to make money. Once you’re in they don’t care about you anymore. Don’t go here unless you want to waste your time and money.