Protesters are ramping up advocacy against the potential sale of all
or some of the Tribune Company to the conservative billionaire Koch
brothers with a nationwide day of action. Meanwhile, the number of
signatures on various online petitions has risen to more than 500,000.
“We
will not sell our freedom of speech. We will not sell our right to have
independent news. We will not sell the City of Chicago,” said Shani
Smith, 38, a project organizer with Stand Up! Chicago.
“We are here for senior citizens, for children, for working families,
and that’s what we stand for. If the Koch brothers don’t stand for it, they most certainly cannot buy the Chicago Tribune.”
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U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D, IL-4)
Although the Chicago Board of Ed 
Energy was high outside the Chicago Board of Education meeting
Wednesday morning as education activists, union members, teachers,
students and parents gathered in anticipation of a vote that could close
a staggering amount of schools across the Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
district. 
Education activists headed to Springfield early Wednesday morning to lobby for a moratorium on school closings. Their campaign for legislative action comes on the same day as the Chicago Board of Education votes on a
proposal to close a record-breaking number of public schools in Chicago. Meanwhile, the Illinois General Assembly has less than one month left in the spring session, which ends May 31.
After more than 70 percent of O’Hare’s recently hired janitors voted in favor of 
