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Casey is a small town in rural Illinois. It boasts of having the world’s largest golf tee, the world’s largest rocking chair and the world’s largest mailbox.
But the town of 2,600 people 200 miles south of Chicago didn’t have the world’s largest high school.
And that made Thor Stepina’s move this summer from Casey-Westfield High to Prairie High School a bit of an adjustment.
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