Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 received village approval of its plan to replace Lincoln Middle School. Daily Herald file photo, 2014

Mount Prospect village board members this week approved Mount Prospect Elementary District 57’s plans to build a new Lincoln Middle School.

The project, funded by an $85 million referendum approved by voters in November 2024, will replace the existing school with a 127,000-square-foot building.

“The village is, I think, in an era of renewal and new development, and this is going to be a beautiful new addition to our educational offering in Mount Prospect, and it’s something that we have needed for some time,” Mount Prospect Mayor Paul Hoefert said at Tuesday’s village board meeting.

The new school will be constructed around the existing Lincol

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