Sunday, August 04, 2013

ILL-inois: Library district collects taxes but has no library

Ford Heights has no library
How would you feel if you lived in a place that taxed you for a library--but you are unable to check out books. Ask the residents of Ford Heights, Illinois about it.

From the Chicago Tribune:
Ford Heights has a library district that collects about $20,000 a year from taxpayers who live in one of the poorest communities in the state.

But Ford Heights has no library.

The district was forced to close its free-standing library about 20 years ago when it couldn't come up with the money to maintain the building, and it was eventually razed. A state-of-the-art library in neighboring Glenwood then offered services for a while.

Ford Heights residents still show up at that library in Glenwood, but librarians there have to turn them away — the Glenwood-Lynwood district ended the arrangement in 2009 after Ford Heights fell behind on payments by about $50,000.
ILL-inois is sick, sick, sick.

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Tregonsee said...

I pay a sewer tax based on my water consumption. Water in, er garbage out. Sounds reasonable, except the nearest sewer line is almost 2 miles away. Of course that doesn't matter, since the law is the law.

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