The Illinois legislature put aside $50 million in a brand new capital funds authorized over the weekend for a brand new highschool to be constructed at the Near South Side, boosting the hopes of Chinatown citizens who've spent years pushing for an area college to serve their group. The grant doesn’t ensure a brand new college will probably be constructed, but it surely revitalizes an effort that was once set again a couple of years in the past when a plan to grow to be a South Loop basic college right into a highschool failed. Given the price of construction a college lately, CPS would want to devote an extra $25-60 million for the undertaking to have any likelihood