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Rockton-Roscoe News: Monday, Aug. 25, 2025

Bridge closed, Jack’s story garden

Michael McGinnis

Aug 25, 2025 — 3 min read

Prairie Hill staff welcomed students back to school, which has a new outdoor learning garden.

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Starting today, the Illinois Tollway will be closing the Belvidere Road bridge over I-90, east of downtown Roscoe, for bridge deck repairs. The work will be completed by September 13, 2025, but the duration is dependent on the weather. A detour will be marked on Swanson Road and IL Route 251. Delays should be expected.
The mother of Jack Baumann told WTVO that a story garden has been completed in his memory at Prairie Hill Elementary School, where she teaches - a natural outdoor classroom where students are “able to freely wiggle and move around and be yourself and be, like, authentically you.”

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