Residents of Chicago’s South Suburbs Deal with Crushing Tax Increases

In this feature by WBEZ Chicago, the challenges of rising property taxes in the South Suburbs are brought to light. The article explores how these financial pressures impact residents and highlights the critical need for innovative solutions—an area where SDA is actively working to drive change and provide support.

“The ability for us to leverage that transportation means that a future world where there will still be cars, but not as many cars, and people are going to be much more reliant on public transportation, allows for enough property density around those nodes here in the Southland to create places where people live, shop and work out in the Southland and are still connected to the city of Chicago,” Kemp said, the CEO of Southland Development Authority.

Read the full article on WBEZ Chicago here.