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Extra Extra: City Can Seize State Tax Returns For Unpaid Fees

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Feb 15, 2012 12:00AM


  • Watch out. If you owe the city money, they could deduct the amount from your state tax return. That includes overdue parking tickets, red light camera citations and other unpaid fines set by city hearing officers. [ABC7]

  • A new Clarke’s, a 24-hour restaurant, opened in Hyde Park on Monday. [53rd Street Blog]

  • A common type of air pollution has already been known to contribute to lung disease, and now it might speed up the mental decline that comes with aging, according to new research led by a researcher at Rush University’s Rush Institute for Healthy Aging. [WBEZ]

  • Police seized cash and marijuana plants from a Jefferson Park grow-house. [ABC7]

  • A judge ruled the arrest of the man accused of killing members of singer Jennifer Hudson's family was legal, and the case will proceed to trial in April. [Tribune]

  • Video of all architects' Navy Pier proposals are available on the Navy Pier website. [Cityscapes]

  • A Minnesota man stole thousands of gallons of laundry detergent from a Walmart in West St. Paul, taking a bottle each day for at least one month. [Star Tribune]