CHICAGO (WLS) -- More than 300,000 students went back to school on Monday morning in Chicago, and that means parents and caregivers had to hustle to get back on the school schedule.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson cheered on students at the Courtenay Language Arts Center in Uptown and Austin College & Career Academy High School while loving parents said their tearful goodbyes.

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"It's kind of tough because, I mean, I've done it with my siblings, but it's different when it's your child. Yeah, it's like, that's my baby," parent Andrea Brackner said.

This is Brackner's first time dropping her own kid off at school, and she says they both felt the first-day jitters.

"She really didn't want to go because she doesn't want to leave me, bu

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