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Cook County Assessor’s Office Opens Berwyn and Rogers Park for 2015 Property Tax Appeals

The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that 2015 assessment notices were mailed on February 18, 2015, for the following townships:

  • Berwyn
  • Rogers Park

The deadline to file an appeal is March 20, 2015.

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Cook County Assessor’s Office Opens 2015 Property Tax Appeal Session

The Cook County Assessor’s Office has announced that 2015 assessment notices were mailed on January 30, 2015, for the following townships:

  • Norwood Park
  • River Forest
  • Riverside

The deadline to file an appeal is March 3, 2015.

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Rogers Park Township 2017 Assessment Notices Mailed

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.cook seal v2

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.

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A Taxing Year for Chicago Homeowners

Chicago rowhouse neighborhoodChicago residents won’t see the 2020 property tax hikes some had feared under a city budget that holds property tax increases to $18 million for public libraries, but it is little relief for a city still absorbing multiyear increases imposed to cover unfunded pension obligations– and the sting of this year’s reassessments, which hit some North Side and Central neighborhoods hard.

Pension pressures still loom large over the city of Chicago, which faces a pension burden “the largest of any U.S. city,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, the five-year contract that resolved the recent teachers’ strike will carry a price tag estimated at $1.5 billion.
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Senior Exemption Will Renew Automatically Next Year

Cook County property owners who have already applied for and received a senior exemption will have one less chore next year under a law that makes the exemption automatic for property owners 65 and older.

In the past, the senior exemption had to be renewed annually, a task that the Cook County Treasurer’s Office found was overlooked by more than 25,000 of the county’s approximately 740,000 eligible seniors.

Under the law that went into effect this year, eligible seniors will only have to apply for the exemption once and it will auto renew annually. The exemption can reduce a homeowner’s property tax bill by an average of $300 a year as it reduces the property’s equalized assessed value by $8,000.
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