At the end of August, more than 90,000 elementary and secondary students returned to schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago. We captured a few moments from those exciting first days of school for Catholic New World readers.
Laura Baranovskis, Isabella Gerasole, Terese Larrue, Jocelyn Herrera and Katie Lifanda, students at Pope John XXIII School in Evanston, perform a drug-free song and cheer to celebrate the announcement they are a Red-Ribbon School on Sept. 1.
Photo: Karen Callaway / Catholic New World