The word is out! The County is hiking taxes, and the average tax payer can expect bills to be about 10% higher.
Despite the measures the Association has taken over the years, successfully appealing owners assessed valuations, property taxes still seem to creep up every year. It is not an infrequent question – “Why if we won the appeal, are my taxes still going up?” Well, we can only appeal the ‘assessed valuations’, which is one of multiple variables which effect how much you are billed. What one can say is, if we did not appeal the valuations over the years, tax bills would be much higher than they already are.
The following article from DNA Info describes one of the variables we can’t control, and perhaps some of the most common reasons bills keep going up:
From the team at 
Chicago Homeowners Face 10 Percent Average Property Tax Hike This Year
By DNAinfo Staff | June 13, 2017 2:34pm | Updated on June 14, 2017 8:08am
“A hike in levies from the Chicago Board of Education and the City of Chicago government account for the bulk of the property tax increase, Cook County Clerk David Orr said.
CHICAGO — Homeowners in Chicago will see a property tax hike of about 10 percent this year, according to an analysis by Cook County Clerk David Orr.
