Chicago Sun-Times

WHAT TO EXPECT

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6:30 A.M.: Full day of events begin outside every CPS-run school. CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey will picket at Roosevelt High School, 3436 W. Wilson. 8:30 A.M.: CTU President Karen Lewis will picket outside King College Prep High School, where she used to teach, 4445 S. Drexel. Educators will picket at Bogan High School, 3939 W. 79th, and march to the Illinois Department of Rehab Services office at 7600 S. Pulaski to demand the state fund the program. 10 A.M.: A picket of the luxury McCormick Place hotel, receiving $55 million in TIF money, is planned at Cermak and Wabash. 10 A.M. TO NOON: Chicago State University students and Black Youth Project 100 members to lead a teach-in on campus at the CSU Rotunda. Noon rally with Lewis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. 10:30 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M.: Teachin with AFT president Randi Weingarten at Northeaste­rn University, 5500 N. St. Louis. Funeral march featuring New Orleans-style jazz staged for the death of higher education. 2:45 P.M.: Brighton Park Neighborho­od Council to lobby Ald. Edward Burke at City Hall to stop charter expansion in the city. 3 P.M.: Alliance for Human Services protests at Illinois Department of Human Services, 401 S. Clinton, to demand revenue, then march via J.P. Morgan Chase to ask for toxic swap renegotiat­ions, en route to Thompson Center. 4 P.M. Day of Action: Fund Our Futures Rally, followed by protest march until 6:30 p.m.

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