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Berrios forced to play defense as county property valuations scrutinized

May 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

With questions swirling around his record as Cook County assessor, Joseph Berrios will take the unprecedented step Tuesday of defending his office before the Cook County Board after a Chicago...

Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia speaks after Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle delivered her budget address Thursday October 13, 2016. Garcia has filed an ordinance that would bar attorneys, law firms and other businesses that file property tax assessment appeals from contributing to the political campaigns of the county assessor.

Cook County commissioner proposes restricting campaign donations to county assessor

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia filed an ordinance Thursday that would bar attorneys, law firms and other businesses that file property tax assessment appeals from contributing to the political...

Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios held a press conference Monday June 12, 2017 at the Cook County Building to refute stories from the Tribune about inequities in property tax assessments.

Scrutiny builds over Berrios property tax assessments; inspector general investigating

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

The inspector general for Cook County is investigating issues raised by a Tribune series that documented widespread errors and unfairness in property valuations produced by Assessor Joseph Berrios, the Tribune...

Governor candidate and state Sen. Daniel Biss, D-Evanston, talks with Barbara Garner, center, and state Sen. Jacqueline Collins, D-Chicago, in front of Garner's Melrose Park home.

Sen. Biss to introduce overhaul to property tax assessments

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Standing on the lawn of a modest home in unincorporated Melrose Park on Tuesday, gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Daniel Biss laid out a sweeping proposal to overhaul a property...

Berrios defends Cook property tax assessments after Tribune reports inequities

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios defended his office Monday in response to a Tribune investigation called "The Tax Divide," which detailed how for years assessments under his watch have been...

These handguns were being processed as potential evidence in the gun storage vault in the Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility on Jan. 26, 2017.

Cook County courts raise bonds for gun crimes — but suspects getting out faster

May 22, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.

Since Chicago's violence rate began to spike in 2012, Cook County judges have doubled the amount of bond set for people charged with felony gun crimes. If judges hoped the...

Housing protesters arrested at breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

May 22, 2019 at 10:57 p.m.

Several people were arrested Friday morning after about three dozen housing advocates attempted to disrupt Chicago's annual interfaith breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The protesters interrupted Mayor...

David Westbrook helps his son Dashaw, center, and daughter Ariana with their homework after school. Westbrook has been on the Chicago Housing Authority's waiting list for years. He and his children currently live with his mother in her house on the South Side of Chicago.

Chicago Housing Authority stockpiles cash, pays debts as families languish on waiting list

May 22, 2019 at 10:57 p.m.

While tens of thousands of families languished on a waiting list for assistance, the Chicago Housing Authority paid off practically all of its debt and overfunded its pension plan, according...

A parking lot used partially for boat storage north of the Waukegan Port District property.

Public invited to weigh in on deal to clean up Waukegan Harbor site

June 8, 2018 at 10:34 p.m.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice opened a 30-day public comment period on an agreement between the state and federal governments and North Shore Gas Co. to clean up...

Laura de la Fuente talks about her late boyfriend, Esau Castellanos, who was shot and killed by police in March 2013. Police said Castellanos died during an exchange of gunfire, but an investigation revealed he had no gun.

In 702 shootings by Chicago police, zero federal civil rights charges filed

August 21, 2019 at 7:34 p.m.

Not long after two Chicago police officers shot and killed an unarmed Esau Castellanos after a brief car chase on the city's North Side, the FBI began a criminal investigation...

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