Editorial: Resist the Chicago Teachers Union’s latest money grab — draining Chicago’s TIFs to preserve a bloated school system

After months of harshly criticizing Gov. JB Pritzker and state lawmakers for refusing to bail out Chicago Public Schools, an increasingly desperate Chicago Teachers Union now says the money to hire more union members and give existing workers a substantial raise has been here in Chicago all along. CTU now is calling for tapping all the excess funds in the city’s tax increment financing ...