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Said John Bouman, of the nonprofit Legal Action Chicago, “By depriving homeowners who fail to pay their property taxes of the entire value of this asset, and by disproportionately affecting Black and Latino homeowners, the tax sale system widens the racial wealth gap that has plagued this region for years.”
Summary and audio linked here.
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Audio and summary
Hmmm… It seems that the Chicago Tribune is now advocating that only White homeowners be subject to Cook County property tax sales.
As one of the Tribunes most prominent former columnists once put it:
“I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It”
Mr. Bouman, you get the government you vote for.
Wow,
POC are actually expected to pay their entire property tax bill?