What Happened To Neighborhoods When Their Schools Closed? New Documentary Explores Aftermath – Block Club Chicago

More than 10 years after 50 CPS schools closed under then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a documentary looks at how communities on the South and West sides have coped with the absences. “It’s important to realize that half of these schools are still vacant. For half of the schools, nothing is happening with them, so we have these empty buildings in these neighborhoods and the impact is real for what that does to a neighborhood,” said Erin Babbin, the film’s co-director.