(08-05-2019 08:07 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  It looks like a big chunk of prime real estate. Could be a good acquisition for some one like DePaul.

Nope. It's 16 miles (usually an hour drive or L ride) between the two campuses, but their locations are almost polar opposites. Depaul is in Lincoln Park, a pristine urban neighborhood with a lot off charm; CSU is on the far south side, in an area that's not the worst in the city but still pretty rough. Nowhere near prime real estate. There's really no fit between the two, even if Depaul had the cash to buy it all and pay off their debts. It's a shame that you couldn't have moved the Jones Convocation Center to the DU campus instead of having to build Wintrust Arena off campus, it's a great arena.

Chicago State was a well intentioned college in theory, but bungled in execution. The south side deserves a decent institution to help educate its residents from a mostly lower income demographic, and instead they got an poor excuse of a college. Imo any talks of merging with other nearby public schools area are unrealistic and wouldn't solve the structural problems it faces; the best they could do now is to basically restart the institution in the same footprint but as a two-year vocational school.