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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed on March 18, 2015, for Lemont Township.
The deadline to file a 2015 property tax appeal is April 17, 2015.
Larry Suffredin is the Cook County Board Commissioner for 11 North Shore suburbs and the 49th & 50th Wards of Chicago who’s made a name for himself in changing county government and being a strong advocate for homeowners.
As reported by the Chicago Tribune’s Bob Seidenberg in his article Cook County officials hold property tax seminar in Evanston, Suffredin said the following last week: “My attitude has been, in the 13 years I’ve been county commissioner, that everyone, everyone needs to appeal, twice a year.”
Because not everyone appeals their property taxes, or does so effectively because they try doing it themselves or use an inexperienced third-party service, a home in Cook County may be over-assessed.
Additionally, not everyone claims all of the exemptions due to them – or they do claim exemptions that you don’t qualify for if you are to purchase the property, and they pay much less than you will have to as a result.
If you’re planning to purchase a new home in Cook County and want to know how much you’re on the hook for, or want to know a home’s appeal and exemption history for any other reason, this blog outlines the steps for how to do so.
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2019 triennial reassessment notices were mailed to Evanston Township property owners on Friday, March 15th. Valuation statistics from the Cook County Assessor’s office for Evanston Township can be found here (when they become available). Homeowners in Evanston have thirty days to appeal their assessment at the Assessor’s office (there is also a second opportunity to appeal later in the year at the Board of Review). The deadline for appealing at the Assessor’s office is Monday, April 15th.
We recommend homeowners review their assessment annually, especially in a year when their township is reassessed, to ensure they do not pay more than their fair share in property taxes. Successfully appealing in a reassessment year may provide 3 years of savings on future property tax bills. If you would like a free analysis of your Evanston property, in comparison to other similar properties, we are happy to conduct a “no obligation” analysis and provide you with a free estimate of how much we believe we could help you save with an appeal.
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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed on March 12, 2015, for Palos Township.
The deadline to file a 2015 property tax appeal is April 13, 2015.
Cook County property assessments are flawed and homeowners who don’t appeal are bearing the worst of it.
Those are among the key conclusions of a recently released report by the Civic Consulting Alliance, a non-profit, non-partisan consulting firm.
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Barrington Township 2017 assessment notices have been mailed by the Cook County Assessor’s office. Each year you have a 30 day opportunity to appeal your assessment valuation at the Assessor’s office. The deadline to file a 2017 property tax appeal for properties located in Barrington Township is April 10, 2017.
We believe reviewing your assessment annually, even in non-reassessment years, to determine whether or not an appeal makes sense is in your best interest. Barrington Township was reassessed in 2016 and is next scheduled to be reassessed in 2019. Therefore, if you make a successful 2017 appeal you will see the savings for two years, until the 2019 reassessment.
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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed on March 10, 2016, for Oak Park Township.
The deadline to file a 2016 property tax appeal at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is April 11, 2016.
The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that 2015 assessment notices were mailed on March 6, 2015, for the following townships:
The deadline to file a property tax appeal is April 6, 2015.
Kensington Research & Recovery has helped save clients thousands of dollars on over 24,000 property tax appeals for residential homeowners and commercial clients in Cook County, IL since 1999.
Below are recent examples of how we’ve helped save Cook County homeowners in Lake View and New Trier between $18,381 and $28,917 in property tax reductions.
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