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Suburban Kids Yanked From Top CPS Schools, Parents Ordered To Pay Thousands Several parents were found to have falsified addresses to get kids into selective-enrollment schools.

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Gathering the Facts About How Housing Segregation Hurts Chicago "If we lowered segregation by a certain amount, would people's incomes rise by a certain amount?"

Average Chicago property tax bill up nearly 13 percent The average Chicago homeowner will see a nearly 13 percent increase in their property taxes this year, according to information Cook County Clerk David Orr 's office released Monday.

*This article was originally posted in 2014* In the latest effort to spur investment in blighted areas of one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, Chicago plans to sell several hundred properties for the price of a candy bar. As part of the Green and Healthy Chicago Neighborhoods initiative approved by the Chicago Plan Commission Thursday, the specific Large Lots pilot program will allow qualifying residents and nonprofits to buy city-owned vacant lots for $1 in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. [ 197 more words. ]

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Chicago To Sell Properties For The Price Of A Candy Bar *This article was originally posted in 2014* In the latest effort to spur investment in blighted areas of one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, Chicago plans to sell several hundred properties f...

Nobody buys a house without checking the fine print: What's the crime rate in the neighborhood? How are the schools? What was last year's property-tax bill? For prospective buyers in Chicago, what's missing from the equation is how much property taxes will go up in the future. It's not a good time to invest when the bottom's falling out, and the foundation is slowly crumbling beneath the city of Chicago, which has a more than $34 billion pension-debt problem. [ 103 more words. ]

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Buyer Beware: Property Taxes in Chicago Only Going Up Nobody buys a house without checking the fine print: What's the crime rate in the neighborhood? How are the schools? What was last year's property-tax bill? For prospective buyers in Chicago, what'...

A venture of Structured Development sold a 102,000-square-foot industrial building at 1001 E. 99th St. in Cottage Grove Heights for $2.4 million to Balton, a local distributor of dry goods, restaurant supplies and similar products, according to Cook County property records. The property was once part of the Jays Foods manufacturing campus. The Structured venture was part of a group that acquired the building in 2005 for about $1.8 million, the records show. [ 66 more words. ]

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Structured Development sells South Side property A venture of Structured Development sold a 102,000-square-foot industrial building at 1001 E. 99th St. in Cottage Grove Heights for $2.4 million to Balton, a local distributor of dry goods, restaur...