Orrington Elementary School is a public school in Evanston, Illinois that is part of Evanston/Skokie School District 65. It is located at 2636 Orrington Avenue, about a quarter mile from Lake Michigan.
The school received national attention in the late 1950s when its longtime janitor, Hjalmar Andersson, refused to sign an anticommunist declaration and subsequently was forced out of the school.
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