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Upon walking into the gym at Carl Von Linné Elementary School on the city’s North Side, a former student — who asked to remain anonymous — said little had changed since his time there in the 1990s.

The gym teacher’s office, with its heavy metal door that locked from the inside and dark window shades, looked exactly as he remembered.

Just beyond the office’s threshold, he said, he endured repeated sexual abuse over the course of five years by a former Linné employee, identified in legal documents as Isaac Vega.

The former student — identified in the litigation by an alias, John Doe — and his attorney conducted the walk-through this year as part of a child sexual abuse lawsuit filed against the Chicago Public Schools district. Initially filed

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