"In less time than it takes to boil an egg" Chicago closes 50 schools.

[Divernan]

21. That's why he's jamming through this huge block of closings in one year.

It's politically expedient for his elite donors - and their ongoing contributions to whatever future campaigns Rahm plans for himself or other politicians he wishes to control.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-naison/erasing-history-in-chicago-and-other-places/10151363569306503?notif_t=note_tag
Prof. Mark Naison : One key component of this strategy is demographic inversion- moving the poor out of the center city into the periphery, where they will no longer be able to physically or politically threaten the global elites who will be working and playing in the redeveloped Center. This process is already well under way in cities like New York, Chicago, Washington and Milwaukee- with the result being that more poor people now live in suburbs than in cities...
... "Erasing History In Chicago and Other Places"