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Curbside diploma service for Chicago high schoolers graduating in the age of COVID-19

Joshua Bobbitt walks to the stage during the drive-thru graduation at Whitney Young Magnet High School on Saturday. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Thousands of students in Chicago and beyond are marking a key milestone this weekend — and they’re finding out what socially distant celebrations look like in a world upended by the coronavirus.

That was the case Saturday morning at Whitney Young Magnet High School, which held a drive-thru ceremony for the Class of 2020 on the Near West Side campus.

Students arrived by car with their families at staggered times and, with face masks in tow, crossed the makeshift stage one by one to receive diplomas.

And instead of a handshake, each graduate got a spritz of hand sanitizer.

Sun-Times photographer Pat Nabong takes you there:
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