Candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson have been noncommittal about the high school proposal, which was backed by outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Roderick Wilson, executive director of the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, talks during a community meeting at Mount Carmel Baptist Church on Aug. 23, 2022, to discuss redevelopment of the former Harold Ickes Homes public housing complex site.
in tax increment financing funds granted by the City Council in December. “Hopefully the new mayor can come in and say, ‘We don’t want it.’”Proponents of the school also have their hopes for renewed momentum pinned on the new mayor. Chicago Public Schools indefinitely postponed town hall and planning meetings regarding the site in February, following an upswell in opposition.
Agrawal said he experienced firsthand what he calls a “strong and desperate need” for a new high school, when the eldest of his two daughters hit middle school and applied for selective enrollment, a competitive process that grants students entrance to schools outside their district-defined neighborhood boundaries.
Agrawal said he found district presentations on the site’s public transit access and the number of public housing units to be provided at a neighboring site compelling. But the specific location isn’t parents’ priority so much as simply ensuring their kids have a strong neighborhood option, he said. “We are saying we want housing in our community,” Wilson said, arguing the city had fallen short of its promise to rehouse residents displaced during public housing demolitions during Mayor Richard M. Daley’s years in office and had since prioritized the wealthy.
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