Mayor Lori Lightfoot gathered with dozens of people Wednesday for a ribbon-cutting event at the site of the new $170 million joint-training facility for the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire Department in West Garfield Park.
Chicago police Superintendent David Brown looks at signs for fallen officers on Jan. 25, 2023, during a ribbon-cutting event for the new Public Safety Training Center on the West Side.
The campus will also include a six-story tower with each story simulating a different environment that firefighters encounter such as apartments, hotels and office buildings as well as an elevator shaft, Lightfoot said.There is also an indoor scenario village that includes a four-way intersection, a bar, apartment building, convenience store and office space, Lightfoot said.
“A $170 million facility shows that this city supports its police officers. Spread the word,” Brown said. “This training facility will hopefully put COPA out of business.” Sharing the location with the Boys and Girls Club is “truly a blessing,” Nance-Holt said. The children going to club activities will have a chance to see first responders who can relate to them and “hopefully spark a dream to one day serve this great city as a firefighter, paramedic or a police officer.”
Destiny Harris, 22, an organizer with #NoCopAcademy who grew up in the Austin neighborhood, said she got involved because her old high school, Whitney M. Young, is a neighbor of the police academy on Jackson Boulevard. She remembers students could hear mock drills and gunshots without warning, and it was traumatizing, especially for students who came from neighborhoods with high levels of gun violence.
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