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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Nader Issa

BIZARRE: West rogers park school drops its slaveowner namesake - You Need To See This

Daniel Boone Elementary in West Rogers Park, which enrolls about 800 students, will be called Mosaic School of Fine Arts from now on. The Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved the change at its monthly meeting Wednesday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

A North Side school that for nearly a century has been named after a former slaveowner is set to be renamed, marking the latest Chicago Public Schools building to shed its racist namesake.

Daniel Boone Elementary in West Rogers Park, which enrolls about 800 students, will be called Mosaic School of Fine Arts from now on. The Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved the change at its monthly meeting Wednesday.

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