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Mayor Johnson: "Look, there's going to be a half-billion dollars going into our public schools. That's the largest investment from TIF surplus ever in the history of Chicago." Johnson is lying. The $550M TIF surplus won't go to schools. The $500M pays the CTU contract.

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