The assessment on Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s home went down while his neighbors’ soared. – Chicago Tribune/MSN

But there’s no fix in at the office, the assessor’s office insists. In fact, Kaegi said the decrease was a corrective counterbalance to a massive assessment hike his house received when he took the unusual step of tattling on himself three years ago, resulting in his family paying more per square foot than neighbors in comparable homes.