Loophole adds up to profits for property tax buyers: study
Critics argue the system hurts taxpayers and local governments when they are forced to refund property taxes -- with interest.
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Critics argue the system hurts taxpayers and local governments when they are forced to refund property taxes -- with interest.
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas has released the findings of a landmark study that show that the practice of “redlining,” which was used to deny loans to...
CHICAGO — Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have been a stubborn problem for decades. Every two years, the Cook County treasurer trie...
Illinois' Scavenger Sale law, which was passed to make delinquent properties productive again, has done little to solve racial inequities, a recent study claims.
Many of the barriers erected by elected officials and civic leaders beginning in the 1930s to keep Black Chicagoans, Latino Chicagoans and White Chicagoans from living, working and playing in the same neighborhoods remain unchanged nearly a century later, according to a new study.