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Shawnee Community Unit forms after consolidation drive
In 1949 western Jackson Union and northern Alexander counties faced dire school conditions. Four years later the Shawnee Community Unit unites Grand Tower Jackson county McClure Alexander county areas into a 204 square mile district with a central high school. transport costs rise but facilities improve as elementary schools consolidate from 22 to four and high schools from three to one.
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Puliie
Jackson
Union Counties
Alexander Couniry
Illinois
Boards of
Russell Rendleman
Union County Superintendent of Schools
Grand Tower
Jackson County
McClure
Alexander County
Bottoms
Union County
Wolf Lake
Ware
Board of Education
Bcarcation
Shawnee
Southern Illinois