Maria Pappas

An aerial view shows homes on the South Side of Chicago lit by the rising sun on April 19, 2018. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune)

Maria Pappas: Senior citizens’ homes are in Cook County tax sale. Here’s what I am doing about it.

April 16, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

I support a bill that would raise the income level for the senior freeze and allow homeowners to make periodic payments of taxes that have been sold.

Vacant land on the northeast corner of 69th Street and Racine Avenue in Chicago includes parcels on the Cook County treasurer's scavenger sale list for delinquent properties Jan. 13, 2022.

Maria Pappas: Property tax reform will bring some measure of wealth to minority communities

May 26, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

Academic and government studies often make media waves, then end up collecting dust. That's not the case when it comes to my research team's two major studies from 2022. Both...

Pappas tames paper tiger

August 21, 2021 at 9:02 p.m.

Editor's note: Cook County employs entire armies of paper pushers--and not just the desk workers who process forms all day. Walk many of the county government's hallways and you risk...

CAN’T GIVE UP ON PROBLEM YOUTH

August 11, 2021 at 12:02 p.m.

Hope is an infrequent visitor to the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and Juvenile Court. It is a cold, austere place where much work needs to be done and...

COMPUTER EFFICIENCY CAN HELP JAIL

August 19, 2021 at 3:07 a.m.

There is an important management tool that could solve County Jail overcrowding and the mismanagement of arrest warrants: the computer. The recent disturbance at the jail was caused, in part,...

PUBLIC SHOULD HAVE SAY ON BOND PLAN

August 10, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Cook County Board President Richard J. Phelan said he was ''sadder but wiser'' last year when he announced that the county`s record $1.7 billion budget for 1992 will saddle taxpayers...

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