Property tax bills should land in mailboxes across Cook County around the same time as holiday cards, with second installment payments expected to come due before the end of the year, county officials said.
“The are having to use estimates because they don’t have an actual bill, and the banks have been used to getting that bill in July for the last 10 years or so,” ElSaffar said. “So we’re getting calls from folks who are dealing with that, and we’re getting calls from folks who are just wondering where their tax bills are.”
Late bills had been a near-annual inconvenience until Preckwinkle made getting bills out in timely fashion a priority in her first term as County Board president. Second installment bills had arrived by Aug. 1 from 2011 until 2020, when bills went out two months late amid the COVID-19 pandemic.assessment system in County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office, which involves replacing a mainframe computer system that dates back to the 1980s with modern equipment.
Difficulties compounded because the upgrade took place in a year when the city of Chicago, which has the largest number of parcels in the county, was due for a reassessment. And those new assessments in turn prompted a record number of tax appeals before the county Board of Review, slowing the process of finalizing assessments. Board of Review officials did not respond to several requests for comment.
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