Mayoral candidates Ald. Roderick Sawyer, from left, state Rep. Kam Buckner, Paul Vallas and Willie Wilson pray after meeting with members of the Tribune Editorial Board on Tuesday.
Wilson said as mayor he would “close some of those schools down that have 10% or 25% capacity. I would sell them. I would open some up as trade schools,” he said. “Then I would take some of the other schools and create construction inside them and create jobs that people can get in those particular schools, and open them up for the homeless until they get on their feet.
The businessman also joked that he didn’t finish school but makes more money than anyone in the room. Among the findings were that while Lightfoot’s administration has spent millions of dollars in public funds and worked to spur both public and private development in neighborhoods that have experienced generations of disinvestment, the mayor has also lumped millions that were already in the works before she took office or constitute routine government spending, padding the investment total for Invest South/West.
I’d like to see more reporting by the Trib, as well as more discussion from on the candidates on the unsanitary and dangerous conditions of the CTA trains and the O’Hare tunnels.
And still won’t do anything useful
Looks like no one has any ideas so they’re praying to the federal government.