Street named after long-serving Chicago principal

Sunday, June 5, 2016
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The longest-serving principal at one of Chicago's oldest private schools is now honored with a street that bears his name.

A one-block stretch of North Fremont Street in the city's Lincoln Park neighborhood is now Warren Gast Way.
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Principal Gast is retiring after 41 years at St. James Lutheran School.

The church and school threw him a party on Sunday.

Among those at the celebration were students and teachers from the class of 1975 - Gast's first year at the school.

St. James has been in operation since 1857.
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