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A new elementary in “The Forest City (Rockford, IL),” will be named after the city’s first African-American public school teacher.

According to The Associated Press, WGEM-TV, and The Rockford Register Star, the city’s school board voted to name the city’s newest K-5 building after Constance Renick Lane.

This decision was made earlier this month.

Lane was a teacher, principal, and administrator for more than 30 years in the Rockford-Winnebago County area when she retired in 1985. She died in 2000.

Construction began in the Fall of 2017 and the school is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2019.