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Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure
Carlos Ballesteros & Emeline Posner, Injustice Watch with the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, May 16, 2025. Syndicated same day by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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The investigation behind Signal Forge Alert 01. Documents that since 2019 more than 1,000 owner-occupied Cook County homes, worth a combined $108M+, were taken through tax foreclosure over debts totaling $2.3M, with more than half taken over debts of $1,600 or less. Names Velma Lewis and Diana Nesbitt. Every figure in the alert traces here and was verified against this text.
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- Injustice Watch / Investigative Project on Race and Equity
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- 2025
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- 2026-07-17
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