Teachers strike enters its 3rd day with two sides ‘kilometers apart’

Original article in the Chicago Sun-Times by Stefano Esposito, Fran Spielman, Lauren Fitzpatrick, and Rosalind Rossi.

The head of the Chicago Teachers Union suggested the two sides remained “kilometers apart” as the strike entered into its third day Wednesday.

While Mayor Rahm Emanuel suggested there were only two major issues remaining to work out, union President Karen Lewis noted they had agreed on only six of nearly 50 issues.

“To say that the contract will be settled today is lunacy,” she said while at a rally that brought thousands of teachers to the downtown streets Tuesday afternoon. She later said she was “extremely frustrated” when a news reporter commented that it didn’t appear likely that the strike would be resolved even by the end of the day Wednesday.

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