State Rep. Kate Cloonen (D-District 79) joined a Chicago-led coalition in Springfield last week pushing to raise income taxes, and require suburban and downstate taxpayers to dramatically increase their subsidies to prop up Chicago’s insolvent public school system.
In the recent legislative session State Rep. Kate Cloonen voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a measure that would cost constituents upwards of $3.6 billion — a bill tagged by the Quad-City Times as an “end-run on democracy.”