Maria Pappas Wants to Fix Cook County’s Tax System – The Chicago Maroon

Pappas has gained notoriety for a task that isn’t in her job description. Under Pappas’s watch, the office put together a research wing that releases so-called “Pappas Studies,” which call out dysfunction in the county’s tax system. She said, "I can’t untie the Gordian knot here. But I can follow the recommendations of my research group, which are very clear: reducing the interest rate, stopping the loopholes for tax buyers and sale-in-error."