Gary Holcomb spent a long time in the waiting room of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
Finally, Preckwinkle sat down with the chairman of the Sauk Village housing commission.
Preckwinkle now makes regular check-ups with a village that was once a forgotten afterthought in the south suburbs.
Holcomb and his commission have brought that kind of determination to their task and the results speak for themselves.
In July 2011, there were 798 vacant properties in Sauk Village. On Aug. 20, the count was 393. That progress is due in large part to the village’s seven-member housing commission, led by its chairman, Holcomb…Please click here to read David P. Funk’s story in the Times.
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