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CHICAGO (AP) — An unusual legal challenge could upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would raise real estate taxes on luxury real estate sales to fund homeless services.
Such citywide ballot measures are rare in the nation’s third-largest city, but other cities, including Los Angeles, have approved similar so-called “mansion taxes.”
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