Cook County property owners must pay their second-installment tax bills by the end of the day Tuesday....
Chicago Sun-Times | KARA SPAK | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley's proposal to tap $35 million of Chicago's parking meter reserve funds to provide modest property tax relief for some city homeowners pass...
CBS 2 | Vince Gerasole | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago
It's a taxing weekend for Cook County home owners. In tough economic times, many are coping with confusing double digit property tax increases....
Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago
Many Chicago homeowners will see their property taxes rise sharply in the tax bills going out this week....
Chicago Tribune | Bob Secter and Hal Dardick | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday tried to offer up a scapegoat for the puzzle of why property tax bills are soaring as home values are plummeting: Cook ...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
Chicago homeowners squeezed by rising property tax bills could be in line for cash grants of up to $200 thanks to $35 million worth of property tax re...
NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley has learned a new word, and he can't stop using it. The term: abatement. Apparently he finds this noun more pleasing than the two words i...
CBS 2 | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley is calling the Cook County property tax system "broken" and wants citizens of Chicago to protest their property tax bills....
Ted Goeglein | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago
If the Cubs win the World Series this year, thus halting and reversing the space-time continuum, do we have to pay Mayor Daley's latest property tax increase?
Mike Quigley | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
Short of absolute dictatorships, my staff and I couldn't find an example of a more powerful veto anywhere in the world. Why does the president of the Cook County Board have this much power?
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley said today that the state should expand a state program that provides property tax relief to disabled, low-income, elderly residen...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
A band of Cook County Commissioners plan to introduce a proposal to create a so-called "circuit-breaker" fund that would give relief to low-income hom...
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report is due out tomorrow, and the news is all bleak. On the one hand, the city's tax increment financing d...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
Mayor Daley today denounced as a "political stunt" Assessor Jim Houlihan's plan to siphon money away from Chicago's tax-increment-financing (TIF) dist...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
After many Cook County residents early this month were hit with soaring tax bills in this troubled economy, Assessor James Houlihan today is planning ...
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago
A few hours after my property tax bill arrived in the mail last week, I took the dog for a walk and bumped into a neighbor. "My taxes went up again," ...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago
With many city homeowners complaining about their new, higher property tax bills, Mayor Richard Daley will try to get out in front of the issue today ...
Chicago Magazine | Dennis Rodkin | Posted 10.04.2008 | Chicago
Now that we have pretty much accepted that our homes are worth less than they used to be, a question comes up: If the value of my home is dropping, wi...
Chi Town Daily News | Paul D. Bowker | Posted 09.28.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Board of Education approved a record $6.2 billion budget yesterday while holding the line on property taxes for the first time since 1999...
Daily Herald | Ted Cox | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago