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   Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 21:49:51 JST Allan Chow

   What the fuck, dude. #chicago

   https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/chicago-grocery-tax-mayor-brandon-johnson/

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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 21:49:50 JST Allan Chow

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     The BS that alderman Burke has been responsible for is business as usual in Cook County and everyone knows it

     "Kaegi blames the higher residential bills on reductions in commercial tax bills He said properties like apartments and condos, businesses and big box stores won almost $1 billion in reductions after appealing to the Cook County Board of Review.

     "There's an obscure part of Cook County government called the Cook County Board of Review that dramatically cut assessments for commercial properties like those, and it shifted in on to homeowners," he said. "The problem is this other body of government reduced commercial properties by $1 billion and that shifted about four percentage points of the burden on to homeowners "

     https://abc7chicago.com/post/why-is-cook-county-property-tax-bill-high/15118903/

     Chris Wiegman repeated this.
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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 21:49:51 JST Allan Chow

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     When shit like this happens

     https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/23/fritz-kaegi-cook-county-assessor-wrongful-tax-breaks-erroneous-exemptions-walter-burnett

     Chris Wiegman repeated this.
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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 21:51:06 JST Allan Chow

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     Oh yeah this guy

     Solis admitted taking a total of $15,000 from three executives of an unidentified firm in August and September 2015, shortly before and after he supported the zoning change that they requested and shepherded it through the City Council. He also demanded that the executives attend fundraisers for his campaign and solicit contributions from other people.

     https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/08/feds-dismiss-bribery-charge-against-ex-ald-solis-part-unprecedented-deal-testifying

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 21:52:01 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @grumpasaurus As I returned to Chicago, people had told me how much different it was in respect to corruption like this, compared to when I left in 1998.

     They were wrong.

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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 22:10:35 JST Allan Chow

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     • Chris Wiegman

     @chris yeah i think peopple conflate that with like "you should have seen this neighborhood 20 yrs ago..."

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 22:10:35 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @grumpasaurus I think you’re right. The city really is physically cleaner than it was then, many equate that to other things.