“For both big corporate rental-apartment operators and small ‘Ma and Pa’ owners, the dinosaur in the room is soaring property taxes caused by exorbitant governmental spending in Chicago and Cook County. However, the Mayor doesn’t mention that issue.”
“Your administration agreed to a binding timeline on behalf of the City of Chicago without informing the body that must vote on the underlying transaction. This is not a procedural technicality. It is a fundamental failure of the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of city government,” the letter states.
You ride the elevator up a dozen floors. When the doors open, a faint earthy smell greets you. Stepping off the elevator, instead of rows of cubicles, you find racks of vegetables growing under LED lights.