Walks Safe Passage Route with Students and Ring School Bell at Penn Elementary to Start the 2014-2015 School Year

Selection Process Down to Two Final Bidders for Project; City will Conduct Listening and Design Sessions Across Chicago

Program Expansion Will Serve an Additional 27 New Schools and 15,000 More Students; More than 69,000 Students Served Under the Overall Expansion in the 2014-2015 School Year

Mayor and CPS Celebrate Upcoming First Day of School and Tour Newly Renovated Taft High School

69.4 Percent of CPS Students Graduated Last School Year, an All-Time High for the District

Wednesday’s events to begin at 9 am at Jackie Robinson Park, end with rally at Millennium Park

Celebration to be held Wednesday, August 27, details to be released early next week

First Six Months of 2014 Deliver Record Demand; Growing Chicago Tourism is a Key Initiative of the Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs