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.
Pat O'Malley, Maura McTighe and Monserat Monroy, at Immaculate Conception School on Talcott, take in some reading time before lunch on Sept. 5.
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