Northwest Suburban High School District 214 board members and staff line up at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday afternoon to show off the new $6.3 million main foyer and front offices at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com

The main foyer at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights that will welcome freshmen for orientation Friday and the rest of the student body next Wednesday is virtually unrecognizable from a year ago.

Northwest Suburban High School District 214 and Hersey officials formally unveiled and cut the ribbon Wednesday on the new entrance hallway, student services areas and front offices, following completion of a $6.3 million transformation that started last Thanksgiving.

“To those people who have been displaced and move

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