[an amused spectator]

"We simply don't have the luxury in this economy to pass up any opportunity to collect what is due and owing to hard-pressed taxpayers," Burke said.

If these tax evaders paid their rightful share, taxes would go down for the rest of the hard-pressed taxpayers of Chicago.

[george76]

If the Chicago City Council had allowed Walmart to spend their money on building a Walmart store inside Chicago, then Chicago would have received millions of property tax dollars and sales tax dollars per year.

Now, Chicago gets nothing.