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After 30 years, District 153 asks for permanent funding rate increase (free content)

You pay taxes on purchases made in stores along Halsted Street.

You pay taxes when you fill up your gas tank.

When people visit Windy City Cannabis, they pay a tax.

And, yes, will there be taxes collected when the Wind Creek Casino opens at Halsted and I-294.

But none of those taxes benefits schools.  It’s local property owners’ taxes and state support that are covering the cost of schools.

The Nov. 8 referendum vote…

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