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Michelle Obama's high school alma mater to name new athletic complex after her

CHICAGO - Principal Joyce Kenner remembers the moment last November when she told Michelle Obama that Whitney M. Young Magnet High School's new athletic center would be named after her.

"She just had the biggest smile on her face,

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