When Fritz Kaegi took over as Cook County Assessor, part of his platform was shifting around assessed values so that commercial properties and persons with higher value homes saw increased in their assessed values. The bottom line is that some homeowners in Evanston are paying much more than they were just a few years ago. Reliance on lo…
When Fritz Kaegi took over as Cook County Assessor, part of his platform was shifting around assessed values so that commercial properties and persons with higher value homes saw increased in their assessed values. The bottom line is that some homeowners in Evanston are paying much more than they were just a few years ago. Reliance on local property taxes to fund schools is a much larger issue that the State will never get around to addressing.
When Fritz Kaegi took over as Cook County Assessor, part of his platform was shifting around assessed values so that commercial properties and persons with higher value homes saw increased in their assessed values. The bottom line is that some homeowners in Evanston are paying much more than they were just a few years ago. Reliance on local property taxes to fund schools is a much larger issue that the State will never get around to addressing.
Fritz absolutely nuked a bunch of us in SE Evanston, I saw my taxes go up 28% a few years ago and they deny all the appeals now