The old Rockford Central High School

Illinois · United States · School

Now the board of education building on South Madison Street. Students called the underground passage between the buildings rat alley.

The building at 201 South Madison Street in Rockford, Illinois houses the board of education now. It was built near the turn of the twentieth century as Rockford Central High School.

Two further buildings are attached to it, joined by an underground hallway. Students who used that passage called it rat alley, and the name has outlived every one of them.

The head custodian has been telling stories for years about what the evening shift cleaners encounter in the basement, which is the level rat alley runs on.

That detail, that the accounts come from the head custodian relaying what his own staff report rather than from any single witness, is what makes this entry worth keeping. Cleaners work the building alone at night, every night, for years, and a head custodian hears everything.

A high school that became an administrative office keeps the same corridors and loses all the noise. What is described down there belongs to the school rather than to the offices above it.

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Where is The old Rockford Central High School located?

The old Rockford Central High School is in Illinois, United States.

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