Monday, March 13, 2006

Chicago Tax Cap Has Winners and Losers

A lot of homeowners in Chicago are going to get an unpleasant surprise from Cook County Assessor James Houlihan in a few weeks. That's when his office will begin to mail out reassessment notices for city properties. Last time this happened was in 2003, and the median increase was 35 percent. Houlihan aides project the median increase this year will be 41 percent.
Tribune, March 29, 2006

Without a Bumble, Teen Speller Wins Spelling Bee

Appropriately enough, her first correctly spelled word was "intellectual" and the last--the one that is sending Jane Huang to the national spelling bee was.... "philobiblist."
Tribune March 30

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