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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Fran Spielman

Lease signed: Chicago Fire to build $80M training center on Chicago Housing Authority land

Lori Lightfoot Chicago Fire Fire CHA Chicago Joe Mansueto Chicago Housing Authority Ray Lopez Council Soccer
A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire soccer team’s new West Side training facility. (City of Chicago)

No matter who is elected mayor next month, there will be no undoing the controversial zoning change outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot muscled through the City Council allowing the Chicago Fire soccer club to build an $80 million training center on Chicago Housing Authority land.

Lightfoot made certain of that on Monday, announcing she and Fire owner Joe Mansueto had signed the ground lease for the new training center on 23.3 acres of Near West Side land formerly occupied by the CHA’s ABLA Homes.

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