Flu Shuts Down School

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 20, 2009 9:00PM

St. Charles East High School will be closed tomorrow and will remain shuttered through at least Monday as over 900 of the school's 2,100 students called in sick today due to flu-like symptoms. Administrators had no word on how many, if any, of the students were sick with the H1N1 strain of the virus. It's not the first school in the area to be shut down because of widespread flu-related absences; Serena Grade School in LaSalle County is closed for similar reasons.