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Food Stamps Available for Illinois Flood Victims
Victims of the recent Northern Illinois flooding may now be eligible for food assistance.
Governor Pat Quinn on Monday said that food stamps are available to residents of the seven counties that were declared federal disaster areas as a result of last month’s flash flooding.
“The recent floods in Cook and six other northern Illinois counties have [...]
Flooded Homes in Seven Illinois Counties to Get Aid
President Obama signed a disaster declaration on Thursday that allows Illinois homeowners most affected by last month’s storm to receive federal assistance for cleanup.
The declaration, which came about following near-record rainfalls from July 22 through July 24, now allows people who live in the seven hardest-hit Illinois counties to apply for grants and loans to [...]
Governor Signs Bill to Help Illinois Homeowners
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn enacted a law on Sunday that will save Cook County residents money on property taxes and guide other Illinois homeowners through the property-tax process.
The new law extends for three years the Cook County Alternative General Homestead exemption, also known as the “7 percent solution,” which reduces the assessed value of a [...]
Residents Say No to Billboard; Village Officials Say Maybe
You buy a condo in Villa Park, then someone puts up a huge electronic billboard outside your window that constantly blinks into your home. That’s not fair, you say, and half the Village Board agrees. Now what? That is the question for a lot of people that own Chicago Real Estate.
Residents in condominium complexes near [...]
No Clear Plan for Former School Site in Wheaton
Wheaton city council members met this week to discuss ideas for redeveloping a 22-acre site that used to be a middle school.
Ideas were formed. Decisions were not.
Steve Friedman, of S. B. Friedman & Company, offered an array of development choices from residential to commercial to mixed-use.
And each has its own sets of pluses and minuses.
Friedman [...]
