The owners of the United Center are closer to obtaining a $55 million property tax break for a massive development project surrounding the arena, but questions over minority contracting and a dispute with a hospitality union threaten to thwart or delay final approval of the subsidy.

“By treating children as a captive audience for a specific political agenda, the CTU is stripping them of the very thing education is supposed to provide: the intellectual autonomy to navigate the world as free-thinking and upstanding citizens. Instead, they are being used as political props to give the illusion of a youth-led mandate for CTU’s platform.”