A final vote on the city subsidy for the high school set to be built at 24th and State streets, once home to the demolished CHA Harold L. Ickes homes, is scheduled for Wednesday’s full City Council meeting.
Ald. David Moore cast the lone dissenting vote during Monday’s meeting of the City Council’s Finance Committee.to start work on the high school, which generated a significant amount of controversy because it is set to be built on land that had been set aside to replace the Ickes homes, which were torn down in 2009 and 2010.
The property Chicago schools officials want to use for the high school had been set to be redeveloped by the CHA as part of the Southbridge housing development. Instead, the school district will give the housing agency two acres of land near 22nd Street and Wabash Avenue to be included in the Southbridge development, according to the plan approved by the CHA board, whose members are also appointed by Lightfoot.
The city’s subsidy will allow Chicago Public Schools officials to the purchase the land at 23rd Street and South Wabash Avenue, which would be given to the Chicago Housing Authority in exchange for a 95-year lease on property at 24th and State streets, where the school would be built.
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