Build housing, not new high school, on land promised to displaced CHA families

A vacant lot at West 24th and South State streets is the site of a proposed new high school to serve the Near South Side. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Dozens of residents gathered last week to lambaste the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Housing Authority for a land grab designed to further disadvantage Black families left behind by the destruction of public housing. 

That land grab is Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to expedite construction of a new high school on CHA property near Chinatown. Lightfoot recently even dismissed and replaced one of her own School Board appointees in order to remove opposition to the plan.