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LA CASITA IS NO MORE. By a little after ten o'clock in the morning, Board of Education contractors had leveled the library that had been created by the demands of a community that did not have one in a city where more than 150 of the public schools do not have libraries.
report by Kati Glison
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By 9:30 a.m. on August 17, 2013, contractors supposedly hired by Chicago Public Schools had begun using a back hoe to crunch away at the structure called "La Casita", the "Little House" located on the property of Chicago's Whittier Elementary School in the 1900 block of W. 23rd