The head of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center has been getting property tax breaks in Michigan that are allowed only for a primary residence for years even though he’s required to live in Cook County, an investigation by Injustice Watch has found.

Leonard Dixon, who at $280,000 a year is among the county’s highest-paid officials, has been the superintendent of the center for a decade. It’s one of the country’s largest youth jails.

Asked where he lives, Dixon told a reporter, “I live in Chicago.”

Sylvia Jarrus for Injustice Watch

And a spokesman for his boss, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, says a review Evans commissioned found that Dixon lives in Illinois.

But records show Dixon and his wife own a house in Woodhaven, Michigan, for which they receive a propert

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