Word: johnsburg
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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When Painter-Decorator John Larson and his wife moved five years ago into tiny (pop. 557) Johnsburg in northeastern Illinois, about the first thing they did was to head their two children for the town's public school. They soon found that the school was no ordinary public school...
...first obviously no desire to change much else. To avoid trouble, it even offered to pay the Larson children's tuition to the public school in nearby McHenry. But Mrs. Larson would have none of it. The daily bus ride, said she, would be too long, and "besides, Johnsburg is our school, too. Why should our kids have to go some place else...