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Big Woods School, built to Illinois' new rules for what a schoolhouse owed its children
Aurora, Illinois
Jim Roberts · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Illinois passed a school sanitation law in 1915 that set standards for lighting, ventilation, playground space and indoor plumbing. This red brick one room schoolhouse, put up in 1917 and 1918 to replace a crumbling mid nineteenth century building, was among the first in DuPage County built to the new plan, and it follows the state's recommended layout almost exactly. Consolidation closed it in 1963.
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