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Public school closings in Chicago linked to more gun violence in nearby neighborhoods
- June 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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In 2013, Chicago Public Schools closed 49 elementary schools—the largest mass public school closure in U.S. history at the time. A new study from researchers at the University of Chicago and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in Social Science & Medicine, shows that, in addition to limiting access to education, the school closures also led to increases in gun violence.
Originally published at Phys.org