“Before we even started the process of working on the levy, we were already sitting in a hole of $1 million that we had to make up or figure out how to handle,” a village trustee said. “The pension contribution, every year it’s becoming more and more of a surprise.”

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Of 100 big U.S. cities in the annual forecast Realtor.com released in late November, Chicago is expected to have the 84th-strongest residential real estate market in 2018, far better than this time last year, when Chicago placed dead last out of 100.

The forecast sees Chicago-area home prices rising by 2.57 percent during the year, up from last year’s forecast, for a 1.9 percent increase. The improved forecast shows that “we see room for more price growth in Chicago,” Vivas said.

Boykin isn’t getting specific about what exactly he thinks the United Nations can do.