Voters in Lockport High School District 205 will be asked March 19 to fund $85 million in renovations to its historic Central Campus, where freshmen typically attend.

Construction crews worked to complete the finishing touches inside Lockport Township High School Central Campus on Friday before freshmen arrive on Monday for the first day of school.

Lockport High School District 205's Central Campus opened in November 1909, and is now a freshmen campus where the district spends between $500,000 to $1 million annually on upkeep.

LOCKPORT, Ill. — Freshmen at Lockport High School will be bused to a different building days after an old, plaster ceiling collapsed at the schools Central Campus.

Lockport senior Matas Deksnys comes through in the clutch to beat Joliet Central Joliet Central, built in 1901, is old enough that this is the second global pandemic the high school has been through.

Lockport Township High School students will resume in-person learning at a shuttered Frankfort school. They have been learning remotely after a classroom ceiling collapse.

The school board was seeking the $85 million bond issue after a ceiling collapse at the 114-year-old Lockport Township High School Central Campus in November.

Students were evacuated from Lockport Township High School Thursday morning after a ceiling collapsed into a classroom at the facility, officials said.

The future of Lockport Township High School is the focus of a special meeting Monday after voters rejected an $85 million referendum to renovate the century-old, historic school.

Lockport Township High ceiling collapse likely to force shift of classes to Frankfurt Supt. Robert McBride said at a school board meeting that repairs of the 114-year-old central campus building ...