In 2015, 17-year-old Chicago resident Connita L. Richardson was found dead inside Emerson High School, 716 E. 7th Ave. She had been strangled and raped, authorities said.

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More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in one Midwest city contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served as the scenes of the worst possible ...

In 2019, the body of Adriana Saucedo was found in the shuttered Norton Elementary School two days after she was shot and killed by three teenagers in a car in Portage. In June of last year, the ...

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