The Latest Breaking News from Near South Side

The plan is contingent on the school system receiving approval from the Board of Education for its $70 million share of the new high school.

The former Harold Ickes site has been vacant since 2010, and now Chicago Housing Authority officials are looking to lease the land to CPS. South Side residents say low-income housing promises made to the Black community by elected officials have gone by the wayside.

The School Board was slated to vote on the proposal, but it was pulled at the last minute. Even some supporters agreed with the need to build consensus and listen to the concerns of the broader school community.

Pedro Martinez, the school system’s chief executive, made the surprise announcement at Wednesday’s school board meeting at which members were expected to debate and vote on the plan.

With Chicago Public Schools enrollment falling, the Chicago Board of Education is about to take up plans to build a new high school near Chinatown.

The state and federal funds for the $7 million site on the Near South Side will help women and people of color to scale up their businesses.

“Applying to a selective enrollment school is sometimes harder than getting into college,” Ald. Nicole Lee told the Sun-Times. “And we need better quality options ... if you don’t happen to get that perfect score or score high enough.”

CHICAGO — Leaders in Chicago’s Chinatown and beyond clamored Tuesday for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to appoint an Asian-American successor to 11th Ward Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, whose federal tax fraud conviction this week could pave the way for the Near South Side enclave to have its first City Hall representative…

The man, 19, was driving south in the 1400 block of DuSable Lake Shore Drive when someone in a white sedan opened fire, police said.