“We don’t have no library. We don’t have no school. So, Mayor Daley, what you want us to do?”
Two dozen South Side parents went to City Hall to talk to The Mayor. But The Mayor sent some flunkies instead.
About two dozen residents of the Altgeld Garden neighborhood demonstrated outside the mayor’s City Hall office. They’re asking for repairs to their library, which was damaged in a spring flood.
Without it, they say, students no longer have a place to access the Internet, do homework and prepare for college-preparatory exams.
They also continued to speak out in favor of a new neighborhood school, which they proposed at this month’s school board meeting. Students from the area attend Fenger High School, which residents say has become increasingly dangerous since the beating death this fall of student Derrion Albert.
The proposed new school would be located in the closer Carver Military Academy.
Protesters spent a few minutes this morning at the mayor’s door, calling for him to come out and speak with them.
“We don’t have no library. We don’t have no school. So, Mayor Daley, what you want us to do?” they said.
Residents have been asking to meet with the mayor since Albert’s death, says Cheryl Johnson, executive director of People for Community Recovery.
The mayor has instead delegated staff members to hear concerns.
