A group of housing advocates have teamed up with Chinatown residents to propose an alternative site for a new Near South Side public high school that would make room for the city to still deliver promised public housing.
The proposal pulls together a few separate ideas that have been floated in recent months in an attempt to alter Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan for a new $120 million school on former public housing land — a pitch that surprised and continues to anger some residents.
