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Now I know there are those jaded observers out there who contend the mayor’s reawakening has less to do with love for public education and more to do with internal polls that show his school cuts and closings have made him even less popular in Chicago than the Green Bay Packers.
So let’s see . . .
The tax increment financing program is, of course, the one in which you pay property taxes in the names of things you presumably want, like schools, only to see the Chicago Public Schools hand that money over to Mayor Emanuel.
Well, it’s a possibility.
DePaul wins again! Man, if only beating Louisville were so easy.
I suppose there might be some taxpayers who want their property tax dollars, taken in the name of public schools, to in fact be spent for the benefit of Marriott, a privately run business with about $12 billion in revenue and close ties to Mitt Romney, who used to sit on the company’s board.
