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Orr HS holds rally to celebrate basketball team’s state title

By  Sun-Times staff
   
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Raekwon Drake enters an assembly held Friday to celebrate the Orr Academy High School Spartans basketball team winning the State of Illinois 2017 Class 2A Basketball Championship. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Last weekend, Orr High School’s boys basketball team won the Class 2A state championship down in Peoria.

Friday, it was time to celebrate the schools first-ever state basketball championship. The improbable title run, and the struggles the players faced in a violence-ridden neighborhood, had been chronicled in detail by the Sun-Times’ Rick Telander.

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GalleryStudents, teachers, staff and other special guests gathered Friday afternoon in the auditorium of the Humboldt Park school to honor the team. The rally included the presentation of a check to the school for $10,000 from Chance the Rapper’s SocialWorks foundation.

RELATED STORIES: READ RICK TELANDER’S SERIES ON ORR’S BASKETBALL TEAM, ‘A SEASON UNDER THE GUN’ PART 1: At Orr, basketball — and the bleeding of a U.S. city PART 2: Orr sits in the center of the storm PART 3: Orr’s first game: gunfire, then tipoff PART 4: Amid violence, a hope basketball leads to better things PART 5: Where playgrounds have little to do with play

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