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Chester Wilson’s delinquent property tax tab on a South Side building topped $200K. County land bank erased that — and gave the property to a Wilson business partner for $40,000.
Governor JB Pritzker’s 70-page federal wish list would cost trillions of dollars, but not a word is provided on that or how it would be paid. Summary and audio linked here.
Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Audio and summary linked here.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
This is crony capitalism among incompetent morons at its worst.
As an side, the article got a few points wrong – the article says that the city isn’t going after the former owner for taxes. That’s because they can’t. Real estate taxes are ‘in rem’ which in Latin means ‘against or about a thing’ – meaning that real estate taxes only go against the real estate, not against the individual. The article was confusing the city fines against the previous owner – which do have personal liability – and didn’t differentiate between the two very well.