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Pilsen residents protest higher property taxes, gentrification: ‘This is home’

After the Cook County Board of Review granted appeals to businesses downtown, the property tax burden shifted to Pilsen residents who fear they could lose their homes and businesses.

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Despite legal limbo, Illinois' elimination of cash bail set to take effect Jan. 1

CHICAGO — The Illinois criminal justice system is set for a major makeover beginning Sunday, replacing a cash-bail structure with one that requires judges to more carefully weigh who among the accused should be held in custody before trial without using money as a factor.

Chicago Tribune

Cook County still poised to end cash bail Sunday despite uncertainty after Kankakee County judge’s ruling

A judge deemed a provision of the SAFE-T Act unconstitutional as part of a lawsuit involving 64 other counties, but reform will move ahead as planned in Chicago and its immediate suburbs.

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Cook County’s property sales tax process is ‘wholly unfair’

The current system discriminates against Black and Latino residents, often resulting in loss of a family’s home over a minuscule amount of unpaid property taxes.

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Leather carp, “well-built” buck, Teddy Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson, black carp

A confirmation of a leather carp in the Kankakee River, a “well-built” buck in a Cook County forest preserve, sale of Theodore Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson and wild black carp confirmed in the Mississippi River basin are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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Cook County’s delinquent property tax sales process discriminates against minorities, lawsuit states

The lawsuit alleges that the tax sales process disproportionally causes minority families to lose their homes without compensating them for their property.

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Still little movement in R. Kelly’s Illinois cases, though singer could be in attendance at arguments next month

CHICAGO — Close observers of R. Kelly’s Cook County cases might have had a touch of deja vu Tuesday during the singer’s latest hearing.

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Man dies after being trapped in a trench in front of Buffalo Grove home

Nikodem Zaremba, 27, was taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, where he died, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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‘Walking Man’ dies months after being set on fire: ‘An absolute Chicago character’

Joseph Kromelis, 75, died Sunday afternoon, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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Cook County’s chief judge investigating court employees who got COVID-19 relief loans

Four workers in other county departments have quit or been fired this year while under suspicion of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

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Teen charged in fatal shooting on Red Line may have been threatened with knife, his lawyer says

Cook County prosecutors acknowledge that Diunte Moon was holding “a very small pocketknife” when he was shot multiple times this summer.

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South Side woman bilked out of $400,000 by financial adviser who used money to fund her film production company, lawsuit claims

“She moves into assisted living, and all of the sudden large checks start getting made payable to Canal Productions, checks running as high as $75,000,” said Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert.

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Proposal would allow state-licensed drug injection sites in Illinois to fight an opioid crisis that has hit Cook County hard

“The war on drugs, where we told people to just say no, failed us,” says state Rep. LaShawn Ford. “We know that people are going to use, and we have to support them.”

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Cook County Land Bank Authority to hire lawyer for beleaguered county agency

The move comes as an outside review by a former judge, Patricia Brown Holmes, wrapped up, and the agency hires its third leader since June 2021.

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New property tax increases hit Hispanic wards hardest in Chicago

On the Lower West Side, property owners saw their median tax bill more than double, from $2,275 to $7,239, according to the analysis. In Avondale, another heavily Hispanic neighborhood, the median tax bill went up 27%.

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CPS teacher fatally shot while driving in Chatham

Quentine Carradine, 49, was attacked in the 400 block of East 87th Street, police said.

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Former Cook County Land Bank Authority worker charged with property scam

The charges come more than a year after a federal grand jury subpoenaed the agency in May 2021 seeking records on Mustafaa Saleh and two dozen properties the land bank obtained and sold.

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Judges don’t hold Chicago police accountable

Fortunately for Chicago Police Officer Melvina Bogard, a Cook County judge was so intent on finding an excuse to justify dismissing charges against her that he totally overlooked what really transpired during a 2020 arrest at a CTA Red Line station.

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William J. Kunkle Jr. dies at 81; prosecutor in John Wayne Gacy case

William J. Kunkle Jr. secured the death penalty for serial killer John Wayne Gacy and later taught about the infamous trial and some of its legal peculiarities.

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Heather Mack’s daughter ordered into custody of her mother’s cousin — after Mack says she should go to grandmother

Estelle Schaefer, 7, has become the subject of a bitter custody battle before Cook County Judge Stephanie Miller.

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Sheriff Tom Dart gets Cook County funding for helicopter to track carjackers

The Cook County Board approved $11.4 million Thursday for the sheriff’s office to acquire a helicopter.

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New state Senate GOP leader welcomes billionaires’ bucks but warns party must ‘diversify our fundraising’

“We have to broaden that appeal because we’re getting heavily outspent in all our races all across the state,” new state Senate Minority Leader John Curran said.

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Cook County lowers adoption filing fee

The fee now matches that of DuPage, Will and McHenry counties. Some attorneys said they had filed adoptions in the collar counties because it was cheaper.

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Homeowners were in line for lower property tax bills. Here’s why they likely won’t get them.

The Cook County Board of Review often slashes commercial property assessments, saying it is just correcting mistakes by Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office. But that results in higher taxes, mostly for homeowners, who deserve more transparency on the board’s operations.

Chicago Tribune

Still no movement in R. Kelly cases in Illinois' Cook County

CHICAGO — Two months after R. Kelly’s second federal trial concluded, there has been no apparent movement in his Cook County cases.

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