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In 2013, Mayor @RahmEmanuel said the buildings left after shuttering 50 schools would be reborn as community assets. Ten years later, we wondered, "Were they?" SO we walked the grounds, talked to neighbors and dug into documents. Here's what we learned: graphics.suntimes.com/education/2023…
You'll read about a variety of results- what sold vs what didn't, nonprofit vs for profit, CPS vs CHA. But what mattered to us — and to neighbors - was whether these buildings were returned to use or sitting doing nothing? We found that *more than half* are not useful.
That's what neighbors of these buildings have been living with for a decade. Progress has moved at a snail's pace and more than a dozen buildings still have no plans on them at all, public or private.
