'Pay your fair share!' march to Hyatt as striking teachers protest tax breaks for billionaires like Board member Penny Pritzker
Part of the crowd assembled in Grant Park on September 13, 2012, during the protest against tax breaks for Chicago's richest families and corporations. The banner hanging from the balcony of Roosevelt University reads "Pay your fair share!" and was directed at school board member and billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker. Substance photo by David R. Stone.By late afternoon rain was in the air. Thousands of striking Chicago teachers and their supporters marched through downtown Chicago on September 13, 2012, the fourth day of the Chicago Teachers Stirke of 2012, to protest sweetheart tax deals given to the Hyatt Hotel chain, which is owned in a large part by the city’s Pritzker family. Rahm Emanuel appointed heiress Penny Pritzker to the Chicago Board of Education in May 2011. The march, one of dozens held across the city during the first week of the strike, targeted the cynical tax breaks given to Chicago's wealthiest families and corporation, one of the reasons why there is supposedly no money for the public schools.
