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Local residents are being urged to check the Cook County treasurer’s web site to make sure they don’t have unpaid taxes needing to be paid. Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will conduct the first sale in more than two years of delinquent property taxes on Nov. 5.
There are more than 3,000 properties in Cook County’s District 1 – much of it on Chicago’s West Side – in danger of being sold at the annual tax auction that begins May 3.
The Austin Chamber of Commerce and Westside Branch of the NAACP is holding the town hall discussion 6 p.m. Oct. 4 at the North Austin library branch, 5724 W. North Ave.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin invites residents, other stakeholders to a resource fair May 20 at Austin Town Hall.
South Shore, Back of the Yards also will receive money as government officials look to address unemployment, violence in Chicago.
The Cook County commissioner plans to introduce the legislation Feb. 8th.
Enjoy a free hot breakfast while discussing priorities for Cook County in 2017 with Commissioner Richard Boykin.
State Rep. La Shawn Ford and others are pushing for more funding for treatment rather than incarcerating addicts caught with low amounts of the drug.
Cook County students in grades 3 through 12 have until May 13 to submit their work.
Many who attended the June 13 meeting agreed with Commissioner Richard Boykin’s plan to enforce the curfew law and get weapons off the streets, but some objected to his idea to charge defendants as domestic terrorists.