Leonard Dixon, who’s run Cook County’s temporary juvenile detention facility for the past decade, told a reporter outside a Cook County board meeting after declining interview requests that he lives in Chicago. But he maintains another home in the Detroit suburbs, which he and his wife have listed until the present day as their primary residence for tax purposes. On an official Florida form moving an investment property they own in that state into a trust, they listed their Michigan home as their residence.

The issue is important because Dixon is required to live in Cook County in order to work as superintendent of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center on Chicago’s Near West Side. It’s a job that pays $280,000 a year, making Dixon one of Cook County’s most generously compe

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