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Article: South Loop parents calm in council's first session
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 19, 1989
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Motivated by concern for their schoolchildren, the once-warring
factions of the South Loop School community sat together Wednesday
night for their first local school council meeting.
Seated at the table were parents from the Hilliard Homes CHA
apartment complex and community representatives from the
upper-middle-class South Loop and Dearborn Park developments, along
with teachers and the principal of their common link - the school at
1212 S. Plymouth.
"I didn't have any preconceptions of discord," said Janice Epps,
who won her council seat with backing of parents from Hilliard and
the mid-income Long Grove apartments.
"I believe parents, when we get down to the common denominator, ...