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Housing issues that bear watching in 2013
The Chicago area's housing market saw the ever-so-small beginnings of a turnaround last year, as excess inventory started to be absorbed and price declines moderated and even showed improvement in some areas. On New Year's Day, the Mortgage Debt...
Tags: Mortgages, Federal Reserve, Fiscal Cliff, Loans, Real Estate
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Two restaurants say they need tax break to open on Oak Park Avenue
At first glance, Golden Corral and Siam Marina restaurants have little in common, other than wanting to open in Tinley Park. The Golden Corral, a 40-year-old national buffet-and-grill franchise, would employ 100 persons in a new, roughly 11,100-square-...
Tags: Business, Calumet City, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Cook County Government
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Preckwinkle 'making a serious mistake' in not backing Tyson
Change of SubjectRich Miller: (Cook County Board President Toni) Preckwinkle is making a serious mistake here. (Former Todd Stroger chief of staff Lance) Tyson tried to do right in that office. He took the job thinking he could help. Some folks, myself...... -
A tax on politicians? It's an offer they can't refuse
American politicians are always on the lookout for "new sources of revenue," which sounds a lot nicer than "sinking their fangs into our necks." But however you describe it, they just can't stop sucking our blood with their unending tax increases on the...
Tags: Justice System, Elections, Fines, FBI, Politics
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Property taxes appeals surge
Special to the TribuneDismayed that property taxes on her Rogers Park home kept going up despite a sinking real estate market, Aparna Sen-Yeldandi asked a friend to review her tax bill. She was stunned to learn that although she had lived in the residence for nearly 20 years...Tags: Taxation, Justice System, Lawyers, Real Estate, Realty
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CEO found a home here, keeps close ties to native Puerto Rico
Tribune staff reporterRoberto Herencia occasionally rides to work on one of the four Harley-Davidson motorcycles he keeps in his "man cave," a Glenview storage facility equipped with a red couch, a TV and a 6-foot lucha libre mask, an icon of Mexican wrestling. When headed...Tags: Stomach Cancer, Freddie Mac, Elections, FBI, Companies and Corporations
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Democrats can't agree on successor to Jesse Jackson Jr.
Tribune reporterDemocratic leaders spent four hours Saturday listening to 16 candidates audition for the party's endorsement to replace former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., but were unable to solidify behind one contender. After 90 minutes of deliberations, South Side...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Elections, Primaries, Toni Preckwinkle, Politics
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Toni Preckwinkle has not had it up to the Brim with incompetent judges
Change of SubjectUPDATE: Here's the mp3 audio clip: Preckwinkle: Vote "Yes" on ALL judges Scott Kastrup, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's political director, confirms that those robo-calls from Preckwinkle urging a "yes" vote on all judges up for retention... -
A souvenir from the good old days when voters had it in them to dump judges
Change of SubjectA reader sent this button along from the successful 1986 effort to dump Cook County Judge Lawrence Passarella (story here) Don't miss today's fabulous editorial on this topic: This year, the Tribune urged a "no" vote on (Judge Cynthia) Brim...... -
The one in which I talk about the scramble to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.
Change of SubjectTranscript: Flash back to the mid 1990s and ask —who are the most prominent African American politicians in Illinois? Jesse White, Roland Burris, Danny Davis, Tim Evans, Bobby Rush, Carol Mosley Braun, Emil Jones, John Stroger and the up and...... -
Why are leading Dems neutral in Derrick Smith race?
Change of SubjectCarol Marin today notes with dismay that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and other Democrats are remaining neutral in the 10th District state rep race between indicted former incumbent Derrick Smith and... -
Dithering Dems give hope to indicted candidate
Change of SubjectDemocratic Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has her reasons for not endorsing Lance Tyson’s bid for state representative. For a year and a half — from December 2006 until May 2008 — Tyson (right), a lifelong Democrat,...
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