CPS currently plans to build the school on land leased from the CHA at the site where the former Harold Ickes Homes public housing complex once stood. Demonstrators called on CPS to instead build the school at Canal and 17th streets.
The first virtual informational meeting will be held Jan. 19, the district announced Friday, in an attempt to “engage community members in [the] vision” for the new school.
A new high school is slated to be built at 24th and State streets, with the recent blessing of the Chicago Board of Education. It was a tight 4-3 vote, an indication of how controversial the plan is considering that residents of Chinatown, the South Loop and surrounding communities have been asking for a new school for decades.