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The Democratic National Committee is using CTA offices near the United Center that are sublet from developer Scott Goodman, whose company has stiffed the CTA and Cook County for more than $2 million in rent and property taxes.
It's the second straight year that the pension crisis has grown by more than 5%. That intensifies pressure on Mayor Brandon Johnson's year-old pension commission to produce long-term solutions.
The group's report also details the federal tax collector's performance in modernizing its technologies, the speed with which it answers its phones and the rate it sends out refund checks, among other things.
With property tax bills set to hit mailboxes next week, the median bill jumped a record high 19.9% across the southern portion of the county, including bills that more than doubled in Dixmoor and Phoenix.