'They can expect a first of all, beautiful classroom, beautiful school, beautiful furniture, but they can expect a year of great learning in fourth grade.'
That's the unusual journey for a building in southwest suburban Lemont, the old Central Grade School on McCarthy Road.
"The kids, they're all just going to have their own stuff. Keeping things as organized as possible for them," said Kaylyn Brothers, a fourth grade teacher at Central School. Students were sent to other schools, but the school wasn't demolished. It was used as a haunted house. Gone now are the ghosts, goblins and fake blood -- replaced by books, desks and whiteboards.
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