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

Chicago’s next mayor will have to live with the controversial zoning change Mayor Lori Lightfoot muscled through the City Council allowing the Chicago Fire soccer club to build an $80 million training center on CHA land formerly occupied by the CHA’s ABLA Homes.

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Angered by canceled hotel stay, advocate for homeless men now plans her own shelter

Dr. Aleta Clark brought the group, who normally live in tents in Pilsen, to stay at a hotel for a month. After the hotel canceled the reservations, Clark decided she would carry out a dream to open a transitional housing center.

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Rich history of Jane Addams Homes as ‘hallowed ground’ is worth remembering

Its earliest days as a home for Black and white working class Chicagoans serves as an inspiration for a rebirth of the city for all its citizens.

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Budget Committee chair becomes latest member of Lightfoot’s leadership team to abandon mayor’s reelection bid

Fed up with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s uncollaborative, my-way-or-the-highway approach to the City Council, Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) is endorsing mayoral challenger Brandon Johnson.

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Police district councils will give a voice to communities harmed by bad policing

That police misconduct is common should cause us all to think critically about the entire system, and yet we keep paying settlements with hundreds of millions in taxpayer money instead of fixing the cause.

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Roosevelt Square applies fresh approach to ‘hallowed ground’ of public housing

The $172 million development phase on the old ABLA Homes site continues a vision of improving a neighborhood by adding mixed-income housing and other amenities.

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Heightened security planned for Lunar New Year celebrations, the latest on Illinois’ assault weapons ban challenges and more in your Chicago news roundup

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CHA boss gets earful from City Council members

Ald. Jeanette Taylor complained about CHA property managers. “You all need to be looking at these landlords. They love taking vouchers. But they don’t do any upkeep to the building.”

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Cost to CPS for controversial Near South Side high school jumps by $30 million

CPS now says the new school will cost about $150 million to build, up from $120 million. The project faces a City Council vote Wednesday.

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Protesters decry ‘broken promises’ on affordable housing at Lathrop Homes

Despite the city revamping 414 units at the Lathrop Homes in 2019, less than a quarter were marked affordable and about 36% were set aside for public housing — which advocates say was done to push out low income residents.

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Lopez wants Ethics Board, IG to investigate Fire owner’s $25K contribution to Lightfoot

Ald. Ray Lopez said he believes the contribution from billionaire Joe Mansueto, founder of Morningstar, Inc., “represents a gross & familiar abuse of power and, at minimum, a potential violation” of the city’s ethics ordinance.

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More transparency is needed on soccer facility plan

Chicago housing officials have yet to disclose key details of the plan to lease valuable land to the Chicago Fire for a soccer practice facility, according to a new ProPublica report.

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New homes to be built on vandal-hit former school site in Ayrshire town

The work will transform 4,500 sq. m of overgrown land which has become a target for vandalism and anti social behaviour.

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Lanarkshire sheltered housing complex carries out 'thorough' testing after resident diagnosed with Legionnaire's

A resident living there was found to have the disease during the summer

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I’m opposed to the Near South High School plan — here’s why

The way in which the mayor and CPS are pushing forward with this current, controversial and problematic proposal is troubling. There has not been meaningful community engagement with open, public meetings and true dialogue

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Top CPS officials privately warned a new Near South school could undermine neighboring schools, harm Black students

While Mayor Lori Lightfoot has touted the new school to serve Chinatown and other neighborhoods, CPS alumni and even staff inside CPS fear it will do damage to existing schools that serve predominantly African American students.

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Soccer facility plan lets CHA sidestep its pledge for public housing

Supporters said the Chicago Fire soccer facility will be good for the community. It’s now up to the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to ask serious questions about how the facility will fit with the CHA’s stated mission.

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City Council approves Chicago Fire’s training center on Near West Side

The 36-11 vote came after a debate over the project’s merits in an area beset by poverty and whether the land could be better used for public housing.

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Chicago Fire’s Near West Side training site stymied

With seven alderpersons absent, the zoning committee votes it down but is expected to try again Wednesday,

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Catholic Health Australia and private insurers in funding stalemate over hospitals' surgical items

A tense back-and-forth has emerged between one of Australia's biggest private hospital providers and private health insurers over the funding of surgical supplies.

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Housing plan lodged for vandal-hit site of former North Ayrshire primary school

The proposed development would deliver a mix of two and three-bedroom properties for people currently on housing waiting lists.

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Build housing, not new high school, on land promised to displaced CHA families

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan appears to be moving forward, despite significant community opposition and even though nearby high schools could easily absorb more students with expanded programs and resources.

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The toll of pharmacy deserts, FOP leader endorses Bailey and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Protesters return to occupy CHA-owned house in Humboldt Park

The agency is investigating after a management company forced activists who’d been at the house since January to leave the property. The firm’s president, having viewed video of the incident said it “does not condone this type of behavior under any circumstances.”

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