(The Center Square) – A former Cook County Land Bank Authority employee facing up to 20 years behind bars for a scheme to buy property at a discount and then resell it through straw buyers was sentenced to a year in prison. .
The long-abandoned Acme Steel coke plant on the Southeast Side poses “significant threats to human health and the environment” and should be cleaned up under the government’s Superfund program, President Joe Biden’s administration said.
The Cook County Land Bank Authority is piloting a program to make homeownership more attainable in Englewood, where the majority of the organization’s vacant homes are located.