Cook County land bank may add 700-plus properties

More than 700 properties that have languished unused, some for almost two decades, may be grabbed by the Cook County Land Bank Authority to make them more attractive to developers.

The parcels — which are scattered around the county and include land zoned for residential, commercial and industrial use as well as vacant homes — are among 23,000 properties that have been offered for sale through the county’s scavenger tax sale, with no takers for at least two years…Please click here to read Mary Ellen Podmolik’s story in the Tribune.