For the last few days I’ve been getting calls from north-siders wanting to know if they missed something while they were out of town on summer vacation.
Besides, he can’t close Trumbull because he already closed it. And even Mayor Emanuel hasn’t figured out a way to close the same school twice.
At a hearing in February 2013, the principal begged the board of education not to send Trumbull’s special-ed kids to the winds. But the mayor closed the school anyway—one of the 50 he ordered shuttered while on that infamous ski trip in Utah.
That is, he’d put together an ad hoc group of locals to help advise him. They would then ask developers to send in proposals. And eventually O’Connor would recommend a proposal to the board of education, which would have the final say.
Let’s think about this. As the mayor’s floor leader, Alderman O’Connor carried the water for the mayor’s plan to spend about $55 million in TIF money to buy land in the South Loop, effectively taking it off the tax rolls.
And that’s when the save trumbull signs started cropping up.
