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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lee Bey

St. Ignatius acquires architecturally significant bank building

The former Lakeside Bank at the corner of Roosevelt Road and Blue Island on the Near West Side. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

The former Lakeside Bank branch that was originally an architecturally innovative library for the blind and disabled has been bought by its across-the-street neighbor, St. Ignatius College Prep, the school announced Friday.

“Saint Ignatius has acquired and taken possession of the former Lakeside Bank building on the southeast corner of Roosevelt and Blue Island,” the college preparatory school, 1076 W. Roosevelt Rd., said in a written statement to faculty, parents and students.

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