Shoppers from Chicago are coming to Northwest Indiana to save tax money now that Cook County’s highest in the nation sales tax took effect earlier this July.

While I usually don’t support higher taxes, if Cook County wants to increase theirs a little bit more to help out Northwest Indiana’s housing and retail businesses, I’m all in favor!

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Chicago Public Radio takes a look at the 11th floor of Chicago’s Daley Center — the place where many collection cases in Chicago are heard — in “Debt Collectors are Busy, Thanks to a Slow Economy.”

More: Debtors in Court.

Technorati Tags: Cook County, courts, economy, law

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