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The promise from then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel was students would go to better schools, and the district would save money by offloading expensive-to-maintain aging buildings.
In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the buildings left after shuttering 50 schools would be reborn as community assets. Ten years later, we wondered, "Were they?" To find out, we walked the grounds, talked to neighbors and dug into documents. Here s what we learned.