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Air Conditioning Finally Coming To Four CPS Schools In Rogers Park

By Linze Rice | February 1, 2017 6:05am
 Students leave Kilmer Elementary, 6700 N. Greenview Ave., one of 61 CPS schools without air conditioning.
Students leave Kilmer Elementary, 6700 N. Greenview Ave., one of 61 CPS schools without air conditioning.
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ROGERS PARK — Four Chicago Public Schools in Rogers Park will have air conditioning in time for warmer months, part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS' pledge to ensure schools district-wide have them by the end of 2017.

Recently the city issued permits to install window air units at Sullivan High School, and Kilmer, Eugene Field and Gale elementary schools.

"You cannot learn in a boiling classroom or if it's freezing in the winter," CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said in August.

Emanuel originally announced the air conditioning project in 2013 and estimated it would take until 2018, but said last year the installations would be complete a year early with $27 million in the CPS capital budget for 2017 set aside for the air units.