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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that triennial reassessment notices were mailed on February 2, 2017, for River Forest Township. The deadline to appeal your assessment at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is March 7, 2017.
River Forest Township is one of seventeen townships in the south suburban group which will be reassessed in 2017. Valuation statistics for River Forest Township can be found here.
Riverside Township assessment notices for 2018 have been mailed. The 30 day window to appeal your assessed value at the Assessor’s office is now open through the deadline of March 2nd.
You may appeal your assessment each year, regardless of when your township was last re-assessed (Riverside was re-assessed in 2017). In fact, it is our opinion that you should at least review, if not appeal, your assessment annually due to regular changes in the housing market (others have also made this recommendation).
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The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that 2015 assessment notices were mailed on January 30, 2015, for the following townships:
The deadline to file an appeal is March 3, 2015.
The Cook County Assessor’s Office has mailed assessment notices for Rogers Park Township. The 30 day window to appeal assessments is now open and the deadline to file a 2017 property tax appeal at the Cook County Assessor’s Office is March 1, 2017.
Rogers Park Township is located in the city triennial section and the next scheduled reassessment year is 2018. However, appealing your assessment can be done in every tax year, including non-reassessment years.
The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that 2016 assessment notices were mailed on January 29, 2016, for the following townships:
The deadline to file an appeal is February 29, 2016.
For most people, a house is likely the most important investment they will ever make, in multiple senses of the word. It’s where you put down roots, raise a family, celebrate with the people you love. It can also be a source of wealth building and financial security.
That’s why it’s so important to protect your investment. That might mean making necessary repairs or improvements. It can also mean not paying more than you should for in interest or mortgage fees.
A small change in your mortgage interest rate can cost you tens of thousands of dollars over the life of your loan.
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Attention all seniors in Cook County: the deadline for applying and re-applying for both the Senior Citizen Exemption and the Senior Freeze Exemption is February 3, 2016.
Not doing so will result in the loss of the exemption applied to your 2016 second installment property tax bills that you will receive this summer. Even if you have had one or both of these exemptions previously, you must now re-apply every year.
To claim the senior citizen property tax exemption in Cook County, you must apply by March 1 – even if you’ve applied before.
All senior citizens must apply every year with the Cook County Assessor’s Office to qualify for the exemption.
If you will be 65 or older this year, then you may qualify for the senior citizen exemption, which provides tax relief by reducing the equalized valuation of an eligible residence. Exemptions will appear as a deduction on the second installment of your property tax bill that is mailed out each summer.
With Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s property tax hikes consistently in the news, especially as Chicago Public Schools budget shortfall of $215 million and continued unfunded pension liabilities for city police officers, firefighters and teachers remain unsolved issues, here’s what to expect to see in your 2017 property taxes if you live in Cook County.
Regardless of what happened the year before, your first property tax installment is always 55% of the total property taxes you paid the year before. First installment bills are usually received by homeowners in March.
A mayoral candidate’s idea for a tiered system of property tax rates that would tax higher-priced homes at higher rates was short-lived.
Another idea to establish a statewide property tax to help pay off pension obligations was decisively rejected by suburban voters in November before it was ever even formally proposed. The referendum was seen as a way to discourage any attempts to introduce such a proposal – based on an idea from three Federal Reserve of Chicago economists reported earlier this year.
The chilly reception in both cases illustrates the hurdles around proposals that have the potential to raise property tax rates, especially in an election year, and especially in areas like Chicago, where property owners are still absorbing the sting of four years of phased-in property tax hikes.
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