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According to the Cook County Assessor’s Office triennial reassessment notices were mailed on February 6, 2017, for Riverside Township. The window to appeal your assessment is now open until the deadline of March 10, 2017.
Riverside Township is in the south suburban triennial group which is being reassessed in 2017. Valuation statistics for Riverside Township can be found here.
The Cook County Assessor’s office mailed 2019 Riverside Township assessment notices on February 5th. The 30 day window to appeal your property’s assessed value at the Assessor’s office is now open through the deadline of March 7th.
Riverside Township is scheduled to be reassessed in 2020. However, homeowners should review their assessments annually and appeal each year if and when there is a strong argument that their home may not be assessed fairly. If you think you might be paying too much in property taxes contact us for a free, no obligation, professional analysis of your property.
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The Assessor’s Office has mailed 2018 assessment notices to River Forest property owners. You may appeal your assessment each year during the 30 day window which is now open and will close on March 6th.
Cook County reassesses properties triennially through a mass appraisal system. River Forest was last reassessed in 2017 and if you appealed and were successful on your 2017 tax year appeal you will see those savings this summer on your 2nd installment property tax bill (the 1st installment bill you recently received is always 55% of the previous year’s total tax).
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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.
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.
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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