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The union’s real issue with school closures, [CTU Vice President Jackson] Potter said, is that Chicago has done them without enough educator and community input and has rushed them, destabilizing other nearby schools. Education policy researcher Chad Aldeman, the former policy director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, said some closures or consolidations seem inevitable on the heels of Chicago’s massive enrollment losses. If the district doesn’t make a plan now — with community input and help to ease the transition for students — it could find itself scrambling later to reorganize in crisis mode. “A lot of places that are closing schools are in financial distress,” Aldeman said. “They are trying to save money rather than thinking holistically.”
June 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Shout out to Walt Zlotow of Glen Ellyn for calling out the @chicago.suntimes.com double standards in its reporting on Palestine.

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The horrific murder of two Israeli Embassy workers by a Chicago man received massive coverage in our two daily newspapers. The Sun-Times had a stark front page followed by six full pages. The Tribune had a cover story spread over two pages and long editorial condemning the killings. Understandable. What is not understandable is that both papers haven’t covered the U.S.-enabled genocide in Gaza the same way. When the largely buried stories are published, the genocide is sanitized as the “war on Hamas.” The number of Palestinians obliterated daily by U.S. bombs dropped from U.S. planes is rarely mentioned. There is no editorial pushback against the U.S. making the genocide possible by forking over $20 billion for weapons. Without U.S. weaponry, Israel couldn’t carry out its genocidal, ethnic cleansing campaign. Newspapers have a responsibility to inform readers of the grotesque government policies that kill thousands, inflict starvation and deny medical care to defenseless people cleared from their homeland. More importantly their public mission is to demand our government stop forthwith. On both critical journalistic missions, the Sun-Times and Tribune are AWOL.
May 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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And remember, legislators, do not listen to national activist organizations! Take the word of Rebekah instead, who works for a national activist organization…
A research director from a national lobbying group writes a hypocritical letter to the editor imploring legislators to ignore requests from other national lobbying groups.
December 17, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Thank god Walt avoided that property tax increase. Phew!
A resident of distant suburban Glen Ellyn shares his unsolicited opinion that Chicago residents shouldn’t have to pay a property tax increase. As a suburbanite, the Glen Ellyn resident would not pay any local property taxes in the city.
December 17, 2024 at 4:47 PM