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Growing pains: more students bring more costs to some suburban districts.

Publication: The Chicago Reporter
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
At the stoplight on the corner of Illinois route 25 and County Line Road in west suburban Carpentersville, an embankment behind an old-fashioned gas station looks as though it should give way to lines of wheat and corn. But instead there are lines of homes, each one only slightly different than the next, along curving streets.

Where the homes stop, construction vehicles sit poised to build more.

Families are flocking to the far-flung north-western suburbs near Elgin for brand-new homes with prices much less than those in suburbs closer to Chicago, said Kenneth Arndt, superitendent of Community Unit School District 300.

But the housing explosion has brought an influx of more than 2,000 students in the past five years. And the school...

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