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CHICAGO paris day tours (CBS) Thousands of striking teachers and their supporters were marching down Michigan Avenue on Thursday, after rallying outside a hotel owned by the billionaire family of a Chicago Board of Education member.
At 3:30 p.m., thousands of demonstrators dressed in red gathered outside the Hyatt Regency Chicago, at 151 E. Wacker Dr., protesting the $5.2 million in TIF money the city provided for a new Hyatt hotel in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Around 4 p.m., they began marching south on Michigan Avenue paris day tours toward the South Loop.
"I think it's really important paris day tours to bring awareness to the fact that, according to what I found out, $5.2 million has been given to developers, so that they could build hotels in blighted areas of Hyde Park," teacher Bret Roberts said. "That's money that could have gone to classrooms, and computers, so many other things."
Chris Taylor, a counselor and case manager at Jordan Elementary Community School, held up a sign claiming seven schools in and near Hyde Park have been closed recently, while TIF money went to the new Hyatt.
The march down Michigan Avenue forced the CTA to reroute several buses as the rally headed south toward Congress Plaza at Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkway a couple blocks from the nearby Chicago Hilton and Towers hotel, where contract talks were being held between the Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Public Schools.
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