About 150 teachers, parents and activists marched into the Grossinger City Autoplex and demanded a check for $4 million Saturday.
That would be the “TIF” money — protestors [sic] called it “The Mayor’s Slush Fund” — diverted from the public schools and given to developers such as those who built the autoplex.
- “There’s a giant myth being spread all across this land ... that local governments have no money, they need to take it out of the backs of teachers, take away their pensions,” Cook County Clerk David Orr told the cheering protestors [sic]. “Chicago ain’t broke. Chicago has put $2 billion tax dollars that the public doesn’t know about into these TIFs and there’s another $500 million being added every year. There needs to be a moratorium on these TIFs because there has been enormous abuse. They are supposed to go to blighted areas. It’s gone to Willis Towers. It’s gone to Grossinger. It’s gone to other major corporations. As we uncover the mayor’s slush fund, which this is, we’re going to discover that money can go to help the schools.”
Again, stuff that should have been reported on and pointed out while the corruption was going on so the political administration could face the voters' wrath at the time. But of course, the media and politicians being bought and paid for, everyone kept their mouths shut until now.