CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson is critical of Mayor Lightfoot regarding the plans for a new high school on a former public housing site on the Near South Side.
“I think this mayor is totally out of touch because it just doesn’t seem like to me she has the know-how or she don’t think of the citizen chaos. She seems like she do things off the cuff without putting any thought into it whatsoever,” said Wilson.
The $120 million school that would serve Chinatown, Bridgeport and the South Loop was narrowly approved by the mayor’s hand-picked school board on Wednesday. The vote was four-to-three.
Wilson said, while he doesn’t oppose a new school, it’s not the time and he doesn’t like the way this is happening.
“The failure in my opinion of this particular mayor, herself, is a failure to communicate with the people. She did no communicating with the people, shut them all the way out, nothing to say about it all, and she just went and did it. I think she’s using this for political reasons,” Wilson said.
He suggests building affordable housing and investing in existing schools that are highly underutilized at a time with declining enrollment.
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