Schooling in the Ownership Society: My plan for funding CPS sports programs. So crazy it just might work.

Schooling in the Ownership Society: My plan for funding CPS sports programs. So crazy it just might work.:

My plan for funding CPS sports programs. So crazy it just might work.

Lease back the Skyway.

I just heard the news that CPS claims to be so broke that they're cutting elementary school sports programs out of the budget. As a former CPS coach, I'm horrified at the prospect. So I've come up with a funding plan that's so crazy, it just might work.

It came to me after reading about the Canadian consortium that just purchased the lease to the Chicago Skyway from the Spanish/Australian consortium which had originally leased it from us for 75 years, via former Mayor Daley. The original deal was all part of Daley's plan to solve the city's debt problem. It didn't. But it sure made a bundle in profits for the consortium.

That original Skyway concession company was a partnership of Cintra Infraestructuras of Spain and Australia’s Macquarie Group. Their $1.83 billion payment in January 2005 was nearly $1 billion more than the next highest bid, which prompted speculation that the investors had overpaid.

But this week, the Canadians agreed to fork over $2.8 billion to Cintra and Macquarie Schooling in the Ownership Society: My plan for funding CPS sports programs. So crazy it just might work.: