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	<description>tenants helping tenants improve their lives since 1981</description>
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		<title>Peace Party: March 10th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come support the cause and welcome MTO to Pilsen as we have recently relocated after years on Chicago&#8217;s northside.
Featuring live Jazz by Doug Rosenberg (with Dave Miller, John Tate, Cory Healey)
DJ&#8217;s Naomi Walker and Dave ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/peace-party-march-10th-2010/</link>
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		<title>RENTERS HAVE HIGHER RATES OF UNDERCOUNTS IN CENSUS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Across our television screens and on billboards throughout the city announcements about that the 2010 Census are springing up.  The campaign for census participation is one of the biggest in the history of the census.  ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/renters-have-higher-rates-of-undercounts-in-census/</link>
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		<title>City Council Takes Aim at Slumlords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At MTO’s 2007 Citywide Tenants Congress, tenants identified poor building conditions and slumlords as one of its three key issues.  Tenants proposed several ways to increase landlord accountability.  One way was to hit ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/city-council-takes-aim-at-slumlords/</link>
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		<title>Plan Would Deny Slumlords City Loans Or Contracts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The city of Chicago has a message for slumlords: You will not be rewarded with city loans or contracts.
CBS 2&#8217;s Jim Williams reports the city council is close to passing a law that would put ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/plan-would-deny-slumlords-city-loans-or-contracts/</link>
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		<title>MTO Organizers Support Tenant in Fighting Lock-out and Restoring Utilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 17th a tenant residing at 634 N. Ridgeway called the Metropolitan Tenants Organizations (MTO) hotline in regards to no heat.  The tenant was referred to MTO organizers who immediately went to the building. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/856/</link>
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		<title>CHICAGO BUILDING CODE RE: PESTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO BUILDING CODE RE: PESTS
 
13-196-630  Residential buildings – Responsibilities of owner or operator.
Every owner or operator must:
(a)     Comply with the requirements imposed on him by this chapter;
(b)     Maintain in a clean, sanitary ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/chicago-building-code-re-pests-5/</link>
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		<title>Tenants Get Heat Restored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tenants from the building located at 3045 W 63rd St. call the MTO because their building was in horrible condition and they were not going to take it anymore.  When the MTO organizers arrived at ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/tenants-get-heat-restored/</link>
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		<title>Evantson Rental laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evanston Landlord and Tenants Ordinance
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		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/evantson-rental-laws/</link>
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		<title>Urbana City Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[City Code
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		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/urbana-city-code-2/</link>
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		<title>Cicero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Section 19-37 of the Town of Cicero Code of Ordinances
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		<link>http://www.tenants-rights.org/cicero/</link>
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