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Video: Community reacts angrily about possibility of school closings in Chicago

Feb. 14, 2013
Parents want to save schools that are on the city's list of 129 campuses that might be closed.

In the first of 14 community meetings in Chicago over the next two weeks, about 500 parents and students gathered at a church in the North Lawndale neighborhood to express their anger about possible school closings. The school system had just announced that it had narrowed the list of schools that might be closed to 129.

Video from WGN-TV:

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