Students bring desks to 606 Trail, demand solutions to CPS budget woes

Dozens of Chicago Public School students, parents and other supporters gathered Thursday morning on the 606 trail - and they brought their own chairs.

Desks, actually. The protest by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association was intended to call attention to both Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a school funding solution in Springfield, as well to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel's treatment of CPS. The district has borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars - and laid off hundreds of people - to deal with ongoing budget woes.

The group instead wants what it calls "progressive revenue solutions" like using surplus tax-increment financing dollars and a corporate head tax that they say could generate about $200 million in immediate help for CPS.

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