Cook County Board of Commissioners Approves Property Tax Incentive Program to Address Food Deserts – Southland Journal

The ordinance will amend Cook County’s Property Tax Incentive Program to include real estate used for the expansion or renovation of an existing grocery store or the use of a vacant commercial space for a grocery store located in a food desert, as identified by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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Stewie the Roof Baby
3 years ago

Property taxes have to be awfully low or even negative to make up for the looting and shoplifting that will plague these stores.

NB
3 years ago

They tax grocery stores and their customers out of existence and then offer subsidies to bring them back?…..while blaming the whole mess on systemic racism???, only in Illinois

Last edited 3 years ago by NB
GM
3 years ago

“Food Desert” = “Leftist Manufactured Crisis”

Old Joe
3 years ago

Gee, could Miller work her magic to make Bowmanville a crime desert too?

nixit
3 years ago

The only way for a grocery store to survive in a “food desert” is no property taxes? Might as well let them keep the sales tax they collect too.

Arthur McArthur
3 years ago
Reply to  nixit

Unfortunately their clientele will continue to steal more than the stores can make.

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