Carlos Ballesteros
Senior Investigative Reporter at Injustice Watch
Senior investigative reporter at @injusticewatch, formerly @Suntimes via @report4america. Son of immigrants, against genocide, se habla español
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Carlos Ballesteros
This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. Sign up here to get their weekly newsletter.”In their end-of-session dash to pass a state budget, Illinois lawmakers put off consideration of proposed reforms to property tax sales and foreclosures.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Carlos Ballesteros
In their end-of-session dash to pass a state budget, Illinois lawmakers put off consideration of proposed reforms to property tax sales and foreclosures. That leaves Illinois the only remaining state where homeowners can face losing not just their homes but also all of the equity in them they’ve accumulated if their homes are foreclosed on for falling far behind on paying their property taxes.
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1 month ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Carlos Ballesteros
When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime. Nor was there a warrant for her arrest. It was because she’d fallen so far behind on her property taxes. A decade ago, Lewis — whose mother bought the two-flat in 1961 and had long since paid it off — decided to replace her tattered roof instead of paying $6,200 in property taxes.
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Mar 26, 2025 |
theobjective.com | Carlos Ballesteros |Manuel Lencero
Durante años, la sostenibilidad fue tratada como una rama de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, algo que se podía delegar en un departamento específico y que no interfería en las decisiones del comité ejecutivo. Hoy, esa idea ya no se sostiene. La sostenibilidad ha pasado al centro del tablero: impacta la rentabilidad, el acceso a financiación, la captación de talento y la supervivencia del negocio.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
injusticewatch.org | Carlos Ballesteros
The Cook County Board of Commissioners held a hearing Wednesday on the health and safety of people incarcerated at the Cook County Jail in response to an Injustice Watch investigation which found 2023 was the deadliest year in the jail in at least three decades. In its investigation, published in June, Injustice Watch looked into each of the 18 deaths at the jail last year and found examples of inadequate supervision and poor medical care in the lead up to half of them.
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