Former students and community members gathered Sunday at Queen of Martyrs for a reunion and farewell, two months after the school permanently closed.
School parents are reacting, after a substitute teacher that has worked at multiple schools within the Chicago Archdiocese has been fired.
The Archdiocese of Chicago has sent a letter to Catholic school families on the South Side and south suburbs alerting them to the termination of a teacher with a history of child molestation allegations in Illinois and other states.
St. Hubert's Catholic school has been in Hoffman Estates for 65 years. Parents and others associated with the school are worried its days are numbered, and they want to do whatever they can to save the school.
A historic Catholic school on Chicago's Northwest Side that has been open since 1874 is closing because of falling enrollment and a growing budget deficit.
A Chicago City Council Zoning Committee voted to approve landmark status for St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen.