Inside My Brain During a 45 Minute Commute
and other random thoughts and collisions throughout the day...
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I feel like I should get this picture blown up and framed for Rosey.
A little slice of Shaz Madani that’s been heavy on my mind lately. I work behind a computer. I come home and have the urge to record what I did (that wasn’t involving a computer) on a computer. It’s a vicious cycle…
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That's what its for!
#330: The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.
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WTF!
On Tuesday, shoppers in Cook County will notice a bigger bite at the register. That’s when the 1 percentage-point increase in Cook County’s sales tax goes into effect. Chicago shoppers will pay a 10.25 percent tax on some items—higher than in any other major American city.
What’s covered, what’s not
The Cook County portion of the sales tax —which is now 1.75 percent, up from 0.75—applies to clothes, furniture, alcohol and restaurant food. It does not apply to cars, boats, groceries or medicine.
Double whammy
The 1-point hike comes three months after a quarter percentage-point RTA sales-tax increase.
Comparing suburbs
Many Cook suburbs have sales tax rates close to Chicago’s: It’s now 10 percent in both Schaumburg and Skokie and 9.75 percent in Orland Park. But in DuPage, Lake and Will County towns, sales taxes are as low as 6.5 percent. So if a person makes a $300 taxable purchase, the sales tax would be $30.75 in Chicago, $30 in Schaumburg and Skokie, $29.25 in Orland Park and $19.50 in Libertyville.
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“Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.”
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