This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime or had a warrant issued for her arrest. It was because she fell […] The post Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure appeared first on Injustice Watch.