Cook County will begin transitioning away from private tax buyers.

[Bruce Lynn]

• The legislation establishes a six-year pilot program in which the county purchases delinquent tax debts itself. After six additional tax sales (anticipated through 2030), private tax buyers would no longer participate in Cook County's annual tax sales under the current model.
  
  This just sounds like a disaster to me.  Chicagoland could have used some reforms to alleviate the abuse of buyers backing out of the sale and some collusion, but for the government to buy the liens...that does not sound like a recipe for success.