One of the nation's largest residential real estate companies is about to open its first South Side office in a historically Black neighborhood that has cycled through periods of investment and neglect for decades. As property values spike once more, some residents are torn.
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 Chicago Housing Authority said a $100 million renovation was scheduled to begin in January at Albany Terrace Apartments amid reports from residents complaining of no heat.
The group says turning a 26-acre site on the Near West Side into a soccer training facility will make it harder for those with disabilities to find housing.