Glenbrook High School District 225: The 'Ferris Bueller' School That Became a National Powerhouse

Glenbrook High School District 225: The 'Ferris Bueller' School That Became a National Powerhouse

To stand outside Glenbrook North High School is to stand in a frame of collective memory. You can almost see him: Ferris Bueller, impossibly cool, convincing his girlfriend Sloane to skip school from the payphone near the front steps. The building, a long sweep of brick and glass, is an icon, a backdrop for the cinematic angst and adventure of filmmaker John Hughes, an alumnus who used its exteriors for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and its interiors…