After Facing Potential 3,000% Property Tax Hikes For 2025, Some Illinois Landowners Breathe A Sigh Of Relief As The Plan Is Paused
The delay also allows time for a broader statewide review of Illinois' property tax system, set to begin in 2025. Illinois ...
Crain's Chicago Business1d
New bill calls for Illinois to consider ditching property taxes entirely
The 2024 law is similar to a law Pritzker signed in 2019 creating a property tax relief task force. The report that resulted ...
Hoodline6d
Mason County's Property Tax Landscape Adjusts as Illinois Sets New Equalization Factor for 2024
The Illinois Department of Revenue set Mason County's 2024 property assessment equalization factor at 1.0544 to ensure fair ...
Rural Illinois Counties Vote To Secede—but How Hard Is It To Switch States Without Having To Move?
G.H. Merritt explains that under the U.S. Constitution, you need approval from both the state legislature and Congress for ...
The State Journal-Register2d
County board OKs $10M Massey settlement; critics say it was 'woefully inadequate'
Sontae Massey, a cousin to Sonya Massey, who was fatally shot in her home by a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy, said he was "disgusted" by the proceeding and left with his fiancée, Margaritta Fultz, ...
Family of Sonya Massey, Black woman shot in home by sheriff’s deputy, accepts $10m settlement
The Sangamon County Board approved the settlement Tuesday night, allowing taxpayers to avoid a drawn-out and likely traumatic ...
Opinion
Secession From Illinois Is in the Air
Multiple counties want to leave, and Indiana says come on over.
Fairview Heights shopping center to be sold in auction following a court ruling
Marketplace Shopping Center in Fairview Heights hits the auction block Monday. The auction for the shopping center that consists of 1-26 Plaza Drive and includes Best Buy and other businesses, opens ...
Lansing Journal21h
New property tax relief bill could help hard-hit homeowners
Announcement mentions relief for south suburbs Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi announced the filing of a new bill in the ...
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Could Indiana actually take counties from Illinois?
"But those of us who live outside Cook County know we aren't and ... "The Politics of Public Budgeting in Illinois" found that some of these counties take almost twice as much state money as they pay ...