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On Wednesday, the union knocked on doors in the North Lawndale neighborhood encouraging students to get vaccinated. "People worry that if they go into the school and get the virus, it might not make them hospitalized as young people, but they could go back and they could kill their grandparents with it," said CTU President Jesse Sharkey.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Other news stories reported that ctu’s end game is to make sure the $2 billion in ARPA aid cps got is not spent on debt relief but on increased cps services (i.e. more $ to ctu or increasing ctu membership)…because the insane cps $9.3 billion budget ÷ 340,000 students = +$27,300 per student could never be enough!!!
I thought they followed “science”? They now have to endanger our young people (heart inflammation risks among others) to reduce the symptoms of others? What is wrong with IL? Those with risks need the vaccine – healthy people do not. I thought everyone in IL was “my body my choice”? Hypocrites.
What’s is wrong with Illinois, simple the way people vote and sit on there asses and do absolutely nothing about the situation in this state. Does anybody bother to call or e mail there state representative, go to school board meetings, village board meetings, no, they just sit back among themselves and whine like little children. I go to meetings with my wife and we seem like outcasts nobody ever shows up it has become a political rat race in this state. The controlled demolition of the American empire which I read hits the nail on the head about this… Read more »
Does anyone care what CTU is or wants? Complete low life’s and cowards including Jesse!
No respect for teachers anymore
I care very much about what they are saying. To save the CPS and Chicago we must do the exact opposite of what the Bader Meinhoff Red Brigade CTU espouses