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Chicago Transfer Tax, Or, City Hall’s Greed Knows No Bounds

The dust on the recent CTA pension plan bailout hasn’t even settled yet, but City Hall already has a new plan to alienate Chicagoans (or future Chicago residents) [...]

February 19th, 2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Funding The CTA Pension Fund On The Back Of Chicago Homebuyers

As a kid, I would frequently get in trouble for mischievous acts committed not by me, but by my younger brother. Such is life when you’re the older sibling, and I’ve been repeatedly witnessing this mechanism in other families, to this day [...]

January 15th, 2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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No to SB1674 and No to SB572!

Dan Green gave us a heads up on this in his Mortgage Reports Blog yesterday. At issue is SB1674, the Senate Bill which would significantly expand upon the Predatory Lending Database program that was once called HB4050 [...]

May 30th, 2007 | | 2 comments | Continued