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Daywatch: Chicago Housing Authority is owed millions in rent, report finds

Daywatch: Chicago Housing Authority is owed millions in rent, report finds

Yahoo18-02-2025

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More than 1,000 Chicago Housing Authority residents who are behind on rent have not paid for an average of nearly two years.
CHA's Office of the Inspector General report from the last quarter of 2024 found that as of March 1, 2024, CHA was owed more than $10.4 million dollars in rent by these 1,394 residents and was failing to enforce its lease agreements with them.
CHA is the third largest public housing authority in the country, serving more than 65,000 households, and it also is the largest single owner of rental housing in the city with more than 21,000 public housing units. The agency has a 2025 budget of $1.3 billion.
The OIG advisory comes as the agency is managing senior staff turnover, including in its general counsel position, and is searching for a permanent replacement for former CEO Tracey Scott.
Read the full story from the Tribune's Lizzie Kane.
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A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing Monday at Toronto's Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and those hurt had relatively minor injuries, the airport's chief executive said.
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Mexico said yesterday it's awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.
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Dressed in her gown and heels, Vrettos trudged her way through the snow to find smoke streaming out of the place she called home for most of her life. Her beloved cats, who she called her children and named signature drinks after at the wedding, gone.
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That suggests he won't try to rush players back from any nagging injuries just to play in the series.
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Kay Smith illustrated cookbooks and children's books before gaining a reputation for her watercolor paintings of historic landmarks that led to what she called her 'American Legacy' collection.
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⁠In 1978, Harold Pinter wrote a play about an affair that wrecks a marriage.⁠ The canonical work, 'Betrayal,' is structured in reverse chronology. The first two scenes of the far-from-merry Pinter play take place after the affair has ended, in 1977. The final scene of the play ends even as the affair begins, in 1968.⁠ ⁠Pinter wrote Emma to be 29 when it began, Jerry and Robert, about 32.⁠ ⁠ Those are not the age ranges of the actors director Susan Booth has cast in her made-in-Chicago revival of the play, that opened last night at the Goodman Theatre. But the older actors were cast by Booth with intentionality. Robert Sean Leonard is 55. He plays Robert. Ian Barford is 58. He plays Jerry. Helen Hunt is 61. She plays Emma.

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