By CBS Chicago
Several state lawmakers accused a conservative think tank with close ties to the governor of setting up “a very bad tone for our politics” with a cartoon the lawmakers called “very stereotypical and racist.”
The political cartoon published earlier this week by the Illinois Policy Institute depicts a black child begging on the street for money for Chicago schools, as a white man wearing a suit shows him one empty pocket, while the other is stuffed with cash marked “TIF $.”
Eight state lawmakers staged a protest on Friday outside IPI’s offices in the LaSalle Street Financial District, and demanded an apology.
Read more at http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/08/18/illinois-policy-institute-cartoon-protest/
