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No students, no schools, no problem. Highland Park board still wants to spend $1M on HQ.
Faith is a wonderful thing, a force that can move mountains. The question in Highland Park is whether faith is reason enough for a school district with no students and few employees to shell out $1 million for a virtually abandoned collection of old buildings that are more art wreck-o than Art Deco.
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