Activist Ja’Mal Green shouts at Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot during a news conference near 79th and Halsted on Friday, May 20, 2021. Green accused Lightfoot of lying after she said she was “not familiar” with a project he’s involved with to build a youth center in Auburn Gresham. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a new reason for putting a brick on the $15 million youth center that community activist Ja’Mal Green is trying to build in Auburn-Gresham. Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox is now citing Green’s outspoken criticism of the mayor’s plan to locate Chicago’s first new Boys & Girls Club in a generation on the campus of the police and fire training academy being built in West Garfield Park.