Harvey residents and officials try to piece together city finances in midst of fiscal crisis – Daily Southtown*

One issue at the core of Harvey’s financial difficulties is a painful property tax double-bind. Harvey has one of the highest tax rates in Cook County. Correspondingly, it also has the third lowest property tax collection rate in the county. When the high rates mean that some people can’t or won’t pay their taxes, the tax burden falls even harder on those that do, and the result is a budgetary shortfall for the city.