In his last column for the Daily Southtown, Ted Slowik writes that the strength of communities will depend on the ability and willingness of citizens to ask questions, share information, and pursue transparency and accountability.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Daily Southtown columnist Ted Slowik takes a selfie March 23, 2021, after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a Walgreens pharmacy, 15940 Kedzie Ave., Markham.
. I knew I couldn’t fill his shoes but I did my best to promote transparency and hold government officials accountable.I followed the money as best I could. This meant tracking how municipalities, school districts and other taxing bodies in the south and southwest suburbs spent funds collected from property taxes. But it also meant much more.
The city of Chicago’s overall property tax rate was 6.7%. Tax rates were 9.6% in Elk Grove Village, 10.1% in Park Ridge and 11.1% in Rolling Meadows, and they were 21% in Chicago Heights, 25.8% in Calumet City and 41.5% in Park Forest. Most of Cook County’s 5.17 million residents benefit from inequities in the property tax system, which means there is insufficient political incentive to fix the broken system. People in the Southland, however, suffer the most.
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