South Side's St. Leo High School home to 'a gathering and a mission'

The Southland is full of St. Leo High School alumni, some of whom head back to the old neighborhood to check up on the school and its teams. Chicago News Cooperative sports writer Dan McGrath highlights such a moment in his piece "At Leo High, a Gathering and a Mission."

A full house of 800 turned out for Friday’s Catholic League showdown with Brother Rice. The makeup of the crowd was as remarkable as its size — it included about 200 white folks, Leo graduates on an alumni outing, most of them bused in from a Knights of Columbus Hall in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood roughly six miles away, probably as many whites as have been inside the school since the 1980s.

Over the last 40-odd years, Bob Foster has made it his "life's mission" to keep St. Leo open. Check out McGrath's take on the lifelong venture.