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the dig. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is part two of a two-part series

on progressive city politics in two big American cities, Philadelphia and Chicago.

The Chicago Teachers Union or CTEU has transformed the politics of the city of Chicago.

In the decade and a half since a group of teachers organized within the CTEU,

known as the caucus of rank and file educators took over their union,

the CTEU has repeatedly gone on strike, opposed austerity, built a political organization

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