South Loop School, West Loop development

03/29/2010 12:03 PM

By Micah Maidenberg
Editor

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The first full week of April promises to be an important one for the South Loop School community and West Loop residents.
On April 5, Chicago Public Schools is sponsoring a meeting about overcrowding at South Loop, according to an e-mailed flyer making the rounds.
A CPS spokesman wrote in an email that Jose Alvarez, who is handling special projects like South Loop, and Jen Cheatham, a district administrator, are scheduled to attend the meeting.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m., in South Loop's auditorium at 1212 S. Plymouth.
Past Chicago Journal coverage about this issue:
Dec. 17, Move to teachers academy likely
Dec. 24, More time
Jan. 7, NTA parents want answers
Jan. 8, NTA parents meet
Jan. 20, Time to plan

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On April 7, the West Loop Community Organization and 27th Ward Ald. Walter Burnett's office are hosting a community meeting about the "Gateway" project, described in an e-mail from WLCO as a hotel and retail development envisioned for the land bound roughly by Madison, Monroe, Halsted and Green.
That session is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at Merit School of Music, 38 S. Peoria.


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By ***** ALDERMAN FIORETTI, TEAR DOWN THIS FENCE from ***** MAD AS HELL IN DPII *****
Posted: 04/02/2010 11:48 AM

When CPS had its so called "community meeting" to discuss the fence land grab a couple of years ago, we were told that the meeting was going to be to solicit community input. When the meeting occurred, CPS bureaucrats simply dictated to us what they were going to do. In other words, they had already made up their minds before the meeting. I fear that this meeting will be the same: that CPS has ALREADY DECIDED what it is going to do, and that it's decision will NOT be community-friendly!!!