While constantly demanding the “wealthy” to pay their “fair share,” CTU’s president, Stacy Davis Gates, is notorious for repeatedly failing to pay her city water, sewer and trash bills. Despite her $273,105 income, she just can’t seem to pay her home utility bills on time.

“Eileen O’Neill Burke entered office with a vision and a strategy to repair a Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office which for eight years had failed both victims of crime and law-abiding residents.”

The incident came four days after a mother and her 9-year-old son were attacked by a group of that child’s bullies outside another CPS elementary school in South Deering. And in September, a mother was forced to pull her sixth-grader out of Pershing STEAM Magnet Elementary School in Bronzeville after bullying went ignored for months.

In recent weeks, homeowners have grappled with tax bills that have jumped from 50 percent to more than 100 percent in some neighborhoods, according to a report released by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office. Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi and Board of Review Commissioner Larry Rogers Jr. publicly blamed each other for steep increases.

One issue at the core of Harvey’s financial difficulties is a painful property tax double-bind. Harvey has one of the highest tax rates in Cook County. Correspondingly, it also has the third lowest property tax collection rate in the county. When the high rates mean that some people can’t or won’t pay their taxes, the tax burden falls even harder on those that do, and the result is a budgetary shortfall for the city.

According to the complaint, in the 40 days leading up to Lacramioara Beldie’s murder, Constantin Beldie violated court orders and the terms of the electronic monitoring program at least dozens of times, including entering “exclusion zones” set by the court around his wife’s home, work place and school. However, Beldie’s family said “no meaningful action” was ever taken to restrain Constantin or otherwise better secure Beldie against his encroachments.

David Greising, of the Better Government Association: “Of that $100 million from head-tax revenue, $72 million would go toward programs the city’s corporate fund covered last year. Much of the remainder would go toward replacing discontinued federal pandemic relief funds dollar for dollar — without adding more.”

In April, the electronic monitoring program shifted from Sheriff Tom Dart’s jurisdiction to the Cook County Chief Judge’s office, which lacks law enforcement authority. Essentially, O’Neill says that he created a paper tiger. She is hopeful that the new chief judge, Charlie Beach, will make the necessary changes to make them work as they should.