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Newspaper
Hyde Park Herald
Location
Hyde Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1972
Page
4
A Hyde Park Kenwood resident recounts showing a cab driver the neighborhood and inviting him to a weekend art fair festival and park events. The speaker celebrates local YMCA plans new facilities and civic groups while noting ongoing apartment construction and crime prevention programs.
The piece denounces Chicago Hyde Park and other residential real estate taxes as a 28 to 30 percent burden on shelter. It argues the tax hurts low and middle income residents, deters construction, and supports a political action approach. Seven aldermen proposed pruning patronage, reducing 1973 appropriations, and cutting the 1973 levy by at least 10 percent. The measure advances to the Finance Committee.
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