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Granite City Community Unit School District 9

School district in Illinois, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5595842 ↗
Source-derived summary

Granite City Community Unit School District 9 is a school district based in Granite City, Illinois, and it has currently 9 schools. The superintendent of the school district is Mr. James J. Greenwald. The Board of Education's office is located at 1947 Adams Street. The school district serves all or portions of the following cities: Granite City, Madison (far northern areas), Pontoon Beach, and Mitchell.

Editorial summary

“Granite City Community Unit School District 9” enters the record as school district in Illinois, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Granite, City and Community can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Granite, City and Community.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Granite City Community Unit School District 9” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Granite, City and Community provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5595842. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Granite City Community Unit School District 9”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Granite City Community Unit School District 9 primary sources, Granite City Community Unit School District 9 archive and Granite research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Granite City Community Unit School District 9”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Granite City Community Unit School District 9” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.