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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed on July 28, 2016, for Northfield Township.
The deadline to file a 2016 property tax appeal at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is August 29, 2016.
Northfield Township valuation statistics can be found here.
The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed on July 22, 2016, for Orland Township.
The deadline to file a 2016 property tax appeal at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is August 22, 2016.
If you suspect that you’re paying too much in property taxes, consider this: Illinois has the highest median property tax rate in the United States, with various taxing agencies levying a combined rate of 2.67%, according to a nationwide analysis by CoreLogic, an Irvine-based research firm serving the global real estate and financial services industries.
The average median property tax rate across the country is 1.31%, which means that the owner of a home valued at $200,000 would pay annual property taxes totaling $2,620. In Illinois, however, a homeowner would pay $5,340 a year on a property of the same value. In Hawaii, which has the lowest median property tax rate at 0.31%, homeowners pay only $620 per year.
Only six other US states, all but one in the Northeast, have median property tax rates of more than 2%. As the Chicago Tribune points out, the states that border Illinois in the Midwest all have considerably lower property tax burdens: Indiana (0.88%), Missouri (1.26%), Iowa (1.69%) and Wisconsin (1.95%).
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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed for Jefferson and Proviso Townships.
The deadline to file a 2016 property tax appeal at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is August 15, 2016.
The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that assessment notices were mailed on July 11, 2016, for Wheeling Township.
The deadline to file a 2016 property tax appeal at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is August 11, 2016.
Wheeling Township valuation statistics can be found here.
Right before the start of the long 4th of July weekend, the Illinois Legislature passed and Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law a stopgap budget that provides a year of funding for the state’s public elementary and secondary schools and six months of financing for higher education, social service agencies, state operations and capital projects.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the clear winner in the deal, will receive $100 million of a $250 million statewide poverty grant targeted to low-income school districts. Who will pay for this? If you own a home in Cook County, it’s you and the only relief you have is to appeal your property taxes.
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