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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Chicagoans with disabilities inflamed over Chicago Fire’s West Side deal

Rod Wilson, executive director of the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, speaks at a news conference in the Loop where advocates for people with disabilities and public housing rallied against a plan to build a soccer training facility on a Near West Side site that used to hold public housing. (Brian Rich/Sun-Times)

Laura Donaldson sat in her wheelchair in the Loop on Wednesday with a message for someone in the shimmering office towering behind her: “My people need their health and independence, my people need their housing.”

The West Side resident was among several dozen people — some also in wheelchairs — gathered outside Morningstar Inc.’s office, 22 W. Washington St., to protest founder Joe Mansueto’s plan to build an $80 million training facility for his Chicago Fire soccer team on a former public housing site. 

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