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A steady stream of onlookers drove past the Congress School on Tuesday as workers continued to demolish the historic, but dilapidated school building.
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Workers from Fischer Excavating, of Freeport, have begun demolishing the north section of the Congress School, 208 N. Congress Ave.
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