A few hundred years ago, only the wealthy and adventurous indulged in leisure travel. A generally uninteresting Englishman of the 1770s who went to Florence and wrote an account of the experience ...

Toni Preckwinkle is tired of the bickering over how Cook County values commercial properties for tax purposes. She's hoping a new set of recommendations will fix the problem. The Cook County Board ...

Illinois’ current property tax assessment system dates back to the year Apollo 13 launched and the Beatles broke up. Cook County officials say it's finally time for the 55-year-old framework to get an ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has uncovered significant flaws in the property tax assessment system for commercial properties that found they’re consistently undervalued, through a ...

It’s a common critique that commercial property owners want to undervalue their properties when it’s time to pay their taxes and overvalue them when it’s time to sell. A study from Cook County Tax ...

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