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mopinko

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8. i sincerely hope that a couple of chicago's shuttered schools become a drug treatment

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Sun Oct 19, 2014, 10:27 AM

Oct 2014

halfway house. in a lot of those neighborhoods, that is something more badly needed than a half empty school.

thanks to the aca, this is something cook county is really, really working.

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i sincerely hope that a couple of chicago's shuttered schools become a drug treatment mopinko Oct 2014 #8

I'm glad to hear that, mo. NYC_SKP Oct 2014 #9

true. mopinko Oct 2014 #10