Cook County leaders say spring property tax bills, revenues will go out on time – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

Second installment bills were months late last year. On top if it, the revenues collected from those bills took extra weeks to hit the bank accounts of the county’s thousands of taxing bodies. That cash crunch cost schools millions in lost investments and borrowing costs, officials estimated, and damaged local leaders’ trust in Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Treasurer Maria Pappas.
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Sweet Home Alabama
2 months ago

Wow, 20% YoY increase on first half for my old condo. Painful, and this doesn’t make it worth more since people only have so much to spend on a mortgage.

OldJoe
2 months ago

Gosh, why can’t they just forget about me like they so the rest of the time?

Deb
2 months ago

Dems trying to get tax bills released after the primaries. Property tax raised dont look good for Democrats.

Tommy Paine
2 months ago

That ace reporting by the Tribune completely missed that Tyler has gone on record saying that Maria Pappas’s office did not do the work they were supposed to do which also led to further delays in tax bills getting sent out on time. Also, no follow up questions to Maria Pappas regarding as to when the balance of the fall collections were going to be distributed, have they been able to use the new system to distribute the funds and will the spring collections be distributed with the new system if the new system is not currently used to distribute… Read more »

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Hello, Indiana!
2 months ago

Taxwinkle was stuttering and blubbering on tv and could only manage a “ I’m a non-Trumper “ defense even though being handled gently. I doubt Granny will get the heave ho, but she sure is sweating like it.

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