The Chicago Sun-Times reports on Chicago's proposal for a giant increase in real estate taxes:
City Council Finance Committee Chairman Edward M. Burke (14th) said the $108 million property tax increase is "a last option. But if it's necessary, then the taxpayers understand that we have to do what we have to do."
This is the very
same Ed Burke that runs a law firm where:
The primary focus of the firm involves contesting real estate tax assessments in the office of
the respective county assessors, before boards of review and, when appropriate, in the trial
and appellate courts.
Who do you think slates all the judges in
Cook County? Guess who's
wife sits on the Illinois Supreme Court just in case you need an appeal of an appeal? You might say Alderman Ed Burke is in the business of taxation.
