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Trumball School’s historic WPA murals threatened by CPS. | Fred Klonsky

Trumball School’s historic WPA murals threatened by CPS. | Fred Klonsky:

Trumball School’s historic WPA murals threatened by CPS.

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Of the many outrages connected to the largest public school closings in American history, we may now be adding to the list the destruction of part of the city’s cultural heritage.
CPS has one of the country’s largest collections of WPA-era murals.
Over the past decade these murals have been in the process of restoration after