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[Darren Bailey @DarrenBaileyIL]

JB Pritzker’s downtown Chicago hotel has taken over $180 MILLION in taxpayer-funded renovations, including nearly $10 million just last year.

The board approving it? He appoints nearly half the members!

And YOU pay for it every time that property tax bill shows up.

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

The City Council should refuse to vote on the Mayor’s budget which provides schools an additional $552 million of TIF property tax revenues until the @CTULocal1 releases its audit which they have refused to do so for 5 years. #WhereIsTheAudit

[Kdbox @Kdbox2]

@CharlieK_news @LastZinja Yes 📣

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Chicago Public Schools are being grilled for spending $7.7 MILLION taxpayer funds on "travel" in the past year, including to South Africa, Finland and Egypt.

DESPITE a deficit of nearly $1 BILLION. https://t.co/RmSDI2OIC2

The travel expenses are "more than DOUBLE what the district spent 5 YEARS, before the pandemic."

"Nearly 90% of attendees stayed in hotels exceeding CPS spending limits."

Chicago is RIFE with fraud!

[Susana A. Mendoza ☮️ @susanamendoza10]

Imagine how much stronger our communities could be if every TIF dollar stayed right where it started — in our neighborhoods.

That money could fund schools, small businesses, parks, and housing instead of filling budget holes.

TIF funds were never meant to be used as slush funds for operating expenses.

[Ben Bradley @BenBradleyTV]

Chicago Public Schools spending on travel has doubled since 2019.

The staff trips included safaris, hot air balloon rides and Vegas visits.

We dig into it...

[Susana A. Mendoza ☮️ @susanamendoza10]

Half a BILLION dollars of raided TIF funds (meant for constructing/repairing schools & school infrastructure) are going to CPS to fund the CTU's latest contract & pay for pensions. Oh - AND for safaris🦒 & balloon rides. Just remember this when they say "it's for the kids". 🤦🏻‍♀️

[william @bucktownusa]

@ELonMuskNewssX Lumaniferes!

[william @bucktownusa]

@ElonMuskAOC Really cool

[william @bucktownusa]

@musk_news13 👍

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@musk_news13 👍

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[william @bucktownusa]

@Chicago_History BUCKTOWN

[Windy Girl @WindyGirl64]

@CWBChicago @ChicagosMayor Mayor Clown Shoes will never say he made a mistake. His overinflated ego will never allow it. This clown should have never been voted into office.

[Lance Fortune @Lrayox]

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[CWBChicago @CWBChicago]

A woman lied in an alley for 20 minutes, waiting for someone to find her after she was shot overnight in an Auburn Gresham alley that used to be served by ShotSpotter.

Nobody reported the gunfire.

https://t.co/QpUvLERnB3

[william @bucktownusa]

Landlords sue over alleged $11,500-a-month squatter at North Center six-bedroom https://t.co/utgK99FY1A via @crainschicago

[william @bucktownusa]

Landlords sue over alleged $11,500-a-month squatter at North Center six-bedroom https://t.co/utgK99FY1A via @crainschicago

[Alexander Lacherbauer @lacherbauer]

Chicago’s working families want safe neighbourhoods, good schools, reliable transit and well paying jobs. They don’t have time for the low self-esteem victim nonsense that Ms. Bartley brings to City Hall. @BenBradleyTV @ChicagosMayor

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

The Augusta Bike Lane in its natural state… (totally unused).

I saw one guy use it last week. Since then, zero. And this is all in peak cycling weather. Imagine during the rest of year.

I invite any of Chicago’s leading bike advocates to come sit with me there for an hour and if more than 3% of passersby are on bikes, I will donate $1000 to the charity of their choice and admit I was wrong. If not, you tweet a retraction admitting I was right that this lane is an underutilized white elephant (not to mention poorly designed and dangerous).

3% on a nice summer day, for one of the northside’s main bike arteries. Should be easy, right?

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