Safe Passage

Even with mixed feelings over closures, students reported a positive first-day experience.

Salomon Lopez, 10, was supposed to be met with a one-on-one caregiver at his new school but was not.

Parents walked their kids to school a block from where a 14-year-old boy was shot dead Sunday.

The man's body was found by city workers about 10 a.m. Monday in Englewood, police said.

Chappell Elementary welcomed students and staff from shuttered Trumbull Monday morning.

Officials and volunteers reported no problems for students walking from shuttered Ross Elementary.

Lavander Hearnes was killed a block away from Melody Elementary, which starts a new school year Monday.

Aldermen who joined her demanded clean up of a Safe Passage route.

Despite some classroom shuffling, teachers are optimistic about the new school year at Otis.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS boss Barbara Byrd-Bennett defended their comprehensive safe-passage strategy.

Lamont Grant, 34, was charged in the shooting death of Ralph Mcneal, 54, along a Safe Passage route.

More than 100 of Ralph Mcneal's relatives and friends gathered on the block where he was killed Monday.

The schools chief — at times alone — walked to Sumner, Earle, DePriest, Gregory and Cardenas.

Ralph McNeal, 54, was killed along a designated safe route for kids to take to Drake Elementary.