When I met her, Edna Pardo was the person at the League of Women Voters who knew absolutely everything you had to know about property taxes and municipal finances in Chicago.
“OK, Edna, one more time—how do they calculate the EAV?”
After World War II she married Lou Pardo, a party leader in Indianapolis, with whom she had three children. This was, of course, at the height of the red scare.
“My mother got involved in the whole issue of school finances,” Victor says. “That was an overriding concern for the rest of her life.”
The poorer the district, the more it has to scramble for basic supplies, like toilet paper.
She also sniffed out the scam of tax increment financing long before most people even knew what a TIF was.
