The Springfield City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday night creating a registry of properties with repeated housing code violations. The registry will include rental properties, personally owned residences and commercial properties – but not all of them.

This is not the comprehensive landlord registry advocates have pushed for since the council voted it down two years ago. Rather, the ordinance doubles as a logistic change to the housing code and a measure to target “bad apple” property owners. Related

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Mayor Misty Buscher, who introduced the change, said it was spurred by the Illinois General Assembly exploring a ban on crime-free housing ordinances du

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