Will new tax credits keep more Catholic schools from closing?

Catholic Schools Superintendent Jim Rigg acknowledges some schools will close as part of the Archdiocese of Chicago's massive restructuring plan.

But Rigg can't yet say which ones, and in the meantime, he has been focusing on slowing enrollment declines in the nation's largest private school system.

There are 78,000 students in the archdiocese's 215 schools across Cook and Lake counties -- down from a high of more than 365,000 students in the 1960s.

Rigg, of Buffalo Grove, last week visited St. Thomas of Villanova School in Palatine, a 196-student school that has raised enrollment in recent years and modernized classrooms with the help of private donors.

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