Daniel Boone School in Chicago will get a new name
The onetime folk hero and frontiersman was deemed a historically "egregious" figure in a Chicago Public Schools report.
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The onetime folk hero and frontiersman was deemed a historically "egregious" figure in a Chicago Public Schools report.
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Daniel Boone Elementary is the latest Chicago school to change its name to remove a reference to a historically “egregious” figure.
The school becomes the third — and second named after a slaveowner — to change its name since a Chicago Sun-Times review in late 2020 found 30 CPS schools are named after slaveholders.
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