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Property tax research chief for Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, Chicago Tribune investigative team expat, proud husband and father. Chicago Joined January 2010-
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Illinois Considers Unusual Approach to Gun Regulations governing.com/policy/illinoi…
Oh geez . . . Pritzker says DHS aims to deploy 100 military troops to guard ICE operations here chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritz… via @CrainsChicago
What a vindictive stunt: “Federal immigration agents patrol downtown, Millennium Park” chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/imm…
Back yard cornucopia - or is it tomato-palooza? (Leaving out the refrigerator drawer full of cucumbers!)
Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protests, ICE attacks on the protestors at immigration facility - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/20…
More money down the drain?
Isolated, defiant, unhinged - and dangerous: Netanyahu vows to "finish the job" axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiospm
Hey Trib, very few people know what a “baton round” is. And the term is a catch-all. Be specific: rubber bullets, plastic bullets, bean bags? . . . ICE fires baton rounds at protesters in Broadview chicagotribune.com/2025/09/26/ice…
Remarkable . . . Paris court sentences Nicolas Sarkozy to 5 years in prison for criminal conspiracy – Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/par…
Pepper spraying the local police? C'mon . . . Protester hit by pickup truck near Broadview ICE facility; Border Patrol chief in Chicago abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chica…
Prime Prime did originally get me to mistakenly sign up, but heck, I found it worthwhile; I did feel a bit duped, though: Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over FTC's Prime lawsuit axios.com/2025/09/25/ama…
The owners of this fabulously valuable company want a property tax break that the working stiff would never get so they can build a new stadium - to profit more: Bears valued at $8.9B as minority stake sale is finalized: report chicagobusiness.com/sports/bears-w… via @CrainsChicago
Fine reporting and writing that details how Trump administration harms worthy refugees: ‘We got out. She didn’t.’ Trump administration policy halts Afghan family’s bid to reunite with daughter left behind chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/afg…
About that Harvard paper . . . Trump’s Tylenol warning cited a Harvard dean’s research. But a judge called his shifting conclusions ‘unreliable’ statnews.com/2025/09/23/res… via @statnews
No Alden, you're not strip-mining this newspaper: Trib owner loses Dallas news bidding war despite higher offer chicagobusiness.com/marketing-medi… via @CrainsChicago
What an exceptional life. RIP Mr. Sagan: Bruce Sagan, owner of the Hyde Park Herald and a National Medal of Arts winner, dies at 96 chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/bru…
Unintended consequences? . . . How Illinois' privacy law is costing Chicago billions in data-center deals chicagobusiness.com/technology/ill… via @CrainsChicago
Well, Harvard study found Tylenol “may” increase risk of autism, so a mere warning is not so awful. But the vaccine link? Bunk. . . Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence apnews.com/article/tyleno…
WSJ is right to sound the alarm on Chi pensions here, but blaming an ill-advised pension boost solely on "Democrats" is misleading. All GOP IL legislators voted in favor: wsj.com/opinion/chicag…

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