Lightfoot: No Property Tax Hike If Springfield Chips In – WTTW

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world wth end
6 years ago

The title of the article says: “no property tax hike (for Chicagoans) if Springfield chips in,” but the body of the article says no “big property tax hike.” So, which is it? I’ll go way out on a limb and say it’s the latter. Either projected outcome will not likely happen, because Lightfoot probably defines a big property tax as a huge one; you know, the opposite thinking of how Pritzker will be defining the affluent for his progressive state income tax. Also, a more informative title would be: no property tax hike for Chicagoans if the rest of IL… Read more »

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