Chicago is investigating how residents learned of a meeting to hike their property taxes – The Last Ward

"The big scandal isn’t the board voting to hike property taxes by $25 million, though that is worth noting. And while it is absurd, of course, the big scandal isn’t even the investigation into how taxpayers learned about the meeting. The biggest scandal here is that the school board is subverting democracy. Specifically, Chicagoans should be seeing a referendum vote on an extra $550 million increase in property tax collections that will flow to Chicago Public Schools this year, above what’s allowed under the state’s property tax cap."