The Chicago Tea Party may not like many things – taxes, Mitt Romney,
even the Republican Party. But the Tea Party did like a video made by
Andrew Marcus, which champions Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s education
policies.
Marcus, director of the video,
“A Tale of Two Missions,” produced by the Michigan-based Education
Action Group, was the featured speaker
at a Chicago Tea Party event downtown tonight.
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While the interests of big business seem to be very much so on the radar of Springfield politicians, as evidenced by the passage of recent corporate tax break packages, the needs of children — and the impact of passed legislation and cuts on Illinois' youngest residents — may not always be as prevalent in political discussions as it should be. 
A federal mediator waded into the almost two-year contract
dispute between the City Colleges of Chicago and AFL-CIO Local 1708, which
represents city college clerical and technical workers, as the workers
staged a protest today outside City College headquarters. The dispute comes
amid an ambitious “reinvention” of the system: Rahm Emanuel 