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New legislation would require new and prospective data centers to sign so-called peace labor agreements with unions. It’s easy to see what the fallout would be. Investors building new data centers would shrug and say, Illinois is too expensive. Springfield, kill this bill.
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Let’s slam the door on many of the good government reformers who might want to lower property taxes on homes in Cook County, shall we?
No. Please, no.
But that would be the effect of an ill-advised amendment tacked onto a shell bill that passed out of committee on Wednesday in the Illinois House. It would bar anyone from becoming a Cook County Board of Review commissioner who is not a licensed attorney. That would weed out a lot of good government types. It also would weed out many experts in real estate and appraisals, whom you would think would be ideal candidates to sit on a board that hears appeals of property assessments set by the county assessor.