“When Melissa Zaikos, founder, CEO, and principal of the Intrinsic Charter School in Chicago, was looking for a site for the new school, she visited the former Shannon Lumber Company on West Belmont Avenue in the northwest section of the city. “I fell in love with the barn when we walked in,” she recalls of the bowstring truss structure (once an open shed) with solid wood columns that rise as high as 30 feet…”

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