(WLS) -- Officials have identified a female body found inside an abandoned high school in Gary, Ind., as that of a teen girl from Chicago. Connita L. Richardson, 17, was found dead inside the old ...

A new political ad from Illinois Republicans is using a photo of an abandoned building to portray Chicago Public Schools to a downstate Illinois audience. The narrator in the ad, paid for by the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The City of Chicago could start moving hundreds of migrants into an abandoned ... building," said Carol Waitse. POD cameras have been installed on the outside of the old school ...

More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in one Midwest city contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served ...

(CBS) --An old high school ... old Emerson High School on 7th Avenue and Carolina Street. Firefighters got their ladders out to try to tackle the flames from the abandoned building.

Landmarks Illinois on Thursday included Chicago Vocational, at 2100 E. 87th St., on its yearly list of the state’s 10 most endangered buildings. The preservation group cited the school’s ...

Developers are being sought to breathe life into abandoned school buildings across Chicago. Vacant Chicago school building to be redeveloped © 2025 American City ...