Do Lotto Dollars Really Fund Education?

Curious City

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🗓️ 6 November 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Schools are really crimped for cash. Hold up, wasn’t the lottery supposed to help with that?

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.7	What school's up?
0:06.1	Who decides what the next...
0:07.8	Where's that story?
0:09.3	Why they keep the look?
0:11.3	What is this?
0:13.6	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.2	Hi, I'm WBEZ producer Miles Brian, and I'm here in our studio at Chicago's Navy Pier with Curious City Questioner, Gail Tate.
0:27.9	Gail, you want to introduce yourself?
0:29.2	Hi, I'm Gail Tate from Naperville, Illinois, but originally from Chicago, grew up in Chicago.
0:34.1	Gail, you've had Curious City working on a question about the Illinois lottery. You want to remind us what that was? My question was, where are the proceeds from the
0:42.9	Illinois lottery going? I thought the proceeds were to go to education. So why are you interested in this?
0:50.2	Because, as I remember, when the Illinois lottery was proposed, there were people against that whole idea because it was gambling.
0:59.9	And I thought the way it passed is because the people who are opposed believed that, okay, if this money is going to education, we can support it.
1:09.4	Even I felt the same way. If it's going to education, we'll support it. Even I felt the same way. If it's going to
1:11.3	education, we'll support it. And were you voting? How long have you been voting? I've been voting
1:15.8	a number of years, but yes, I was voting age when the lottery started. It sounds like you
1:20.7	suspect the lottery money should be going to schools, but maybe it's not. Do you feel like
1:25.5	we're being sort of swindled here? Yes, very much so.
1:29.3	I hear the stories, especially this past year, about every school district having to borrow money,
1:36.6	but yet the lottery continues.
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