Links to article about Wed. 4/21 Springfield rally

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The following information was forwarded by IAGC -

To see press coverage that contains a comment regarding gifted education, please go to ABC-TV Chicago news, abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/illinois&id=7397967.



To see press coverage of the Illinois Educators Association and Responsible Budget Coalition’s rally - Chicago Tribune reported today that it was the largest rally in Springfield since the ERA march – please see below links –


Alton Telegraph
www.thetelegraph.com/news/alton-39144-state-education.html

AP
abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10439049 (long)
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-ill-budget-protest,0,2184990.story (short)
www.wqad.com/news/sns-ap-il--budgetprotest,0,4679611.story (preview)

Aurora Beacon-News
www.suburbanchicagonews.com/foxvalleysun/news/2185490,teachers-Aurora-Springfield-rally_AU042110.article

Belleville News Democrat
preview www.bnd.com/2010/04/21/1224764/metro-east-teachers-to-join-thousands.html
www.bnd.com/2010/04/22/1226118/ralliers-cry-raise-my-taxes.html

Chicago Public Radio
www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=41498

Daily Herald
www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=374828
www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=374995
blogs.dailyherald.com/node/3869
www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=374995&src=4

Daily Illini
www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/2010/04/21/ikenberry-ui-in-perilous-situation
www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/2010/04/21/professors-travel-to-springfield-lobby-for-fair-budget

FOX-TV Chicago
www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/politics/20100421-tax-increase-springfield-protests

Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/tax-hike-backers-rally-at_n_546021.html

Illinois Public Radio (version picked up on NPR nationwide)
"It was among the largest statehouse rallies in recent memory. Wednesday an estimated 15,000 people crowded the streets lining the Illinois capitol complex and filled the statehouse halls. The diverse coalition included teachers, state employees, individuals with disabilities who depend on state-supported services, and many more. They came together to protest cuts expected to be handed down in the next state budget unless a tax increases passes the General Assembly. Amanda Vinicky was there and his this report..." audio: wuis.streamguys.net/news/BigRalyL.m3u

Illinois Radio Network
www.wgil.com/localnews.php?xnewsaction=fullnews&newsarch=042010&newsid=271

Illinois Statehouse News
www.myfoxillinois.com/dpp/news/illinois/04212010_thousands_rally_at_capitol_push_for_tax_hike
www.myfoxillinois.com/dpp/news/illinois/04212010_union_capitol_rally_pressures_lawmakers
preview www.myfoxillinois.com/dpp/news/illinois/04202010_lawmakers_preview_wednesdays_teachers_rally

Kankakee Daily Journal
daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=455522

KTVI-TV
www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-illinois-budget-rally-042110,0,4988844.story

KWQC TV Quad Cities
www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=12350757
www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=12351502

La Grange Doings
www.pioneerlocal.com/lagrange/news/2186978,lg-rally-042110-s1.article

Lee papers
www.herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/article_fd478051-4792-5a41-b02d-b690ecd6dc06.html
video: www.herald-review.com/youtube_98d748a8-4dcf-11df-9600-001cc4c002e0.html

NBC
Today Show: today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/36708118#36708118

NBC Chicago
slideshow www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Protesters-Shut-Down-the-Capitol-91713034.html

NBC Chicago blog
"So you thought 2010’s biggest populist movement was a tax revolt? You may be wrong. The demonstration taking place in Springfield today is going to make a Tea Party rally look like … a tea party. More than 15,000 protestors are clogging the state capitol to demand that legislature raise their taxes. ... We’re talking bus caravans, Jumbotrons, speakers hollering through amplifiers, a Twitter campaign and a live video stream of the proceedings. ... The Tea Party may be the angriest movement in America today. But it’s not the biggest, or the best organized."
www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Thousands-Demand-Higher-Taxes-91713164.html

Peoria Journal Star
www.pjstar.com/news/x43865055/Ralliers-make-message-heard-outside-Capitol

Progress Illinois
progressillinois.com/posts/content/2010/04/21/save-our-state-rally-swarms-springfield
progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2010/04/21/not-quite

Public News Service
www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/13541-1

SJR
live blog www.sj-r.com/carousel/x43864885/Rally-participants-begin-gathering-in-downtown-Springfield
preview www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x932346876/City-prepares-for-massive-Statehouse-rally
Schoenburg: www.sj-r.com/opinions/x1520941321/Bernard-Schoenburg-Big-crowd-of-tax-hike-supporters-hopes-for-the-best

SouthtownStar
McQueary: www.southtownstar.com/news/mcqueary/2187244,042210mcqueary.article

Sun-Times
www.suntimes.com/news/politics/2187944,CST-NWS-rally22.article
Marin: blogs.suntimes.com/marin/2010/04/broken_budget_wont_get_fixed.html

Tribune
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-state-capitol-rally-tax-increase-020100421,0,7136469.story
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/04/thousands-of-protesters-at-illinois-capitol-to-press-for-tax-increase.html
www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-100421-springfield-tax-rally-pictures,0,2727607.photogallery
preview newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/04/tax-increase-supporters-could-shut-down-capitol-on-wednesday.html

WAND TV Decatur
www.wandtv.com/global/Category.asp?c=182814&clipId=4722214&topVideoCatNo=99891&autoStart=true

WCIA TV Champaign
illinoishomepage.net/fulltext/?nxd_id=144455

WGN-TV
www.wgntv.com/wgntv-school-funding-rally-springfield-april21,0,7322104.story

WICS TV Springfield
www.wics.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wics_vid_1953.shtml

WFIE TV Evansville
www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=12351116

WIFR TV Rockford
www.wifr.com/home/headlines/91771194.html

WHBF TV Quad Cities
www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=12353505

WJBC FM Bloomington
www.wjbc.com/tabid/7865/Default.aspx?AID=15238

WQAD TV Quad Cities
www.wqad.com/news/wqad-springfield-budget-rally-taxes-042110,0,3841488.story
www.wqad.com/news/wqad-labor-rally-illinois-budget-capitol-042110,0,3989854.story

WSIL TV Harrisburg
www.wsiltv.com/p/news_details.php?newsID=9997&type=top

WTVO TV Rockford
mystateline.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=155545