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Dist. 207 Tightens Residency Rules Following Forfeit Of Football Season

Wallace To Call On Legislators To Increase Penalties For Parents Falsifying Student Residency

Entrance to Maine South High School off Dee Road in Park Ridge. (Journal photo)

Maine Township High School Dist. 207 Board of Education members made a small but significant change to district residency requirements Monday in the wake of the discovery that non-residents played on the Maine South football team, forcing this season’s Hawk win total to be voided. 

Dist. 207 Supt. Ken Wallace read a statement on residency before the vote at Monday’s school board meeting in Park Ridge.

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