After decades of broken promises, newly-appointed Ald. Nicole Lee (11th) said Thursday her goal is to deliver the Near South Side high school desperately needed to keep middle-class families from fleeing to the suburbs.
Lee is the first Chinese-American and the first Asian-American woman ever to serve on the Chicago City Council. She is the single-mother of two teenaged sons. She had hoped they would someday be among the first students to attend a Chinatown high school.
