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A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire soccer team’s new West Side training facility.

A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire soccer team’s new West Side training facility.

A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire soccer team’s new West Side training facility.

A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire soccer team’s new West Side training facility.

Activists call on Mayor Johnson to nix Chicago Fire facility deal

The Chicago Fire team is building a new training facility at a 23-acre site that was once promised for affordable housing.

A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire soccer team’s new West Side training facility.

   

While environmental remediation work has already started at the site of a former public housing site on the Near West Side, activists say it’s not too late for the mayor to stop the Chicago Fire from taking over.

Reset gets the latest on the push to bring back affordable housing in the area and the agreement between the Chicago Fire and the Chicago Housing Authority.

GUEST: Mick Dumke, investigative editor and reporter 8lfor Block Club Chicago

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