Adlai E. Stevenson High School: How a Suburban Behemoth Became a Blueprint for Public Education

Adlai E. Stevenson High School: How a Suburban Behemoth Became a Blueprint for Public Education

The first thing you notice about Adlai E. Stevenson High School is the scale. It doesn’t feel like a high school so much as a well-funded corporate campus or a small, exceptionally tidy city. Sprawled across 76 acres of suburban Illinois prairie, its buildings are connected by a glass-encased walkway known simply as “The Link.” Students move through it with a purpose that seems less like the bell-driven shuffle of teenagers and more like the foc…