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Extra Extra: Preckwinkle Calls For County Sales Tax Hike

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Jun 22, 2015 10:30PM


  • Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is pushing for a 1 percent sales tax increase for the county. [Tribune]

  • A look back on the now-defunct Madison and Wabash CTA Station, which came down this month to make way for a new Loop "superstation." [Tribune]

  • A woman who was groped on the street in Wicker Park credits a Streets and Sanitation worker with keeping the alleged groper from escaping before the police showed up.[DNAinfo]

  • Students at Senn High School are raising money to help undocumented students pay for college. [DNAinfo]

  • The median sale price for a Chicago condo was at $320,000 in May—up by 2.9 percent from May of 2014. [DNAinfo]
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