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A more tony Preckwinkle? Pappas adds a little wow to wardrobe of County Board president for the holidays

Toni Preckwinkle is known for her restrained yet clearly commanding presence, sporting a rather sensible, no flair look. Guess what Maria Pappas gave her for Christmas? “I thought Toni could use some Pappas style,” the treasurer told Sneed.

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Cook County property tax tool shows owners where their tax money goes

The online education tool, “Where Your Money Goes,” calculates the money owed to each school district or other local unit of government in the past two years — showing the increase or decrease from the year before.

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Don’t give Cook County nursing homes a property tax break

The tax break would come at the expense of other property owners, who already are “overburdened,” according to a 2020 report from county Treasurer Maria Pappas.

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Most Cook County property owners will pay more in taxes this year

The majority of Cook County homeowners will have bigger property tax bills this year — and this time the north and northwest suburbs got hit particularly hard.

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Jerry Reinsdorf doesn’t want to talk about the Sox, but he’s happy to praise his pal Rocky Wirtz

The White Sox and Bulls owner says there were cross words between him and Wirtz just once: “I wanted to call the United Center restaurant ‘Rocky’s Place,’ and he refused.”

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Bill could spring more Cook County properties from tax sale maze

A measure sent to the governor would let public agencies take action on vacant homes before they get lost in Cook County’s tax sale process.

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‘A great injustice’: Property tax hikes lead to protests, workshops to help homeowners lower bills

A protest Thursday Downtown and workshop Saturday in Little Village are the latest in a series of actions to help homeowners save money and change the process that led to the increases.

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Cook County homeowners to get $47 million in property tax refunds

Overpaid property taxes will be refunded to more than 53,000 county homeowners starting this week and continuing for the next three months, the Cook County Treasurer’s Office said Wednesday.

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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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Kanye’s descent into toxic madness

Sneed: Rapper’s mental problems are no excuse for his antisemitic ravings

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Buffalo Grove victims identified by coroner, state Dems aim to pass new gun bill and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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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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Cook County property tax bills posted online after monthslong delay

The second-installment bills typically mailed by August were stalled by delays with the assessment process and a computer system upgrade in the county assessor’s office.

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Preckwinkle, Yarbrough hold strong leads over Republican challengers

The early results coming in Tuesday night had Toni Preckwinkle leading in the race for Cook County Board president and Karen Yarbrough ahead in the Cook County clerk contest.

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Erasing the legacy of redlining will take action by Congress, state legislature

The history of government redlining haunts many struggling neighborhoods to this day. A little more than half of the 27,000 properties now at risk of being sold for back taxes are within areas the federal government had redlined.

Chicago Tribune

What does ‘redlining’ in 1940s Chicago have to do with today’s Black exodus from the city? Plenty, a new study suggests

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 tries to return those properties to productive use during its biennial scavenger sale of delinquent taxes, often with little…

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Report: Illinois property law fails to end redlining impact

A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods

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Past redlining practices linked to present-day abandoned properties in Cook County, new report says

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas would like the report to spark discussions about reforms to the county’s scavenger sales that occur every two years.

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In Cook County, governments have lost $89.7 million, letting tenants skip out on property taxes

They lease public property to businesses. Many don’t pay their taxes. And the government landlords do little to monitor this, even when the law requires it, a Sun-Times investigation finds.

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War refugee’s cross-Atlantic voyage blossoms into a gift that keeps on giving

‘It’s like a story of survival for generations to come, and we intend to keep passing it down.’

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