HOSPITALS' TAX EXAM.

The article focuses on a ruling of an Illinois Supreme Court, which casts uncertainty over a backlog of more than 15 requests for major tax breaks from local hospitals. It is stated that state officials are getting prepared to decide the fate of property tax exemptions worth tens of millions of dollars for some of the biggest hospitals of Chicago. Also mentioned is that the state law doesn't define an appropriate charity level for hospitals, and the ruling didn't specify a benchmark.