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.
Despite the padded figures it gave to federal regulators, the Chicago Housing Authority is not finished fulfilling its obligations to build homes and redevelop communities where its high-rises once stood.
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