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Cook County Short-Term Liability Trends: FY2016-FY2020

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Ten-Year Trend Shows Increase in Effective Property Tax Rates for Cook County Communities

The Civic Federation recently released its annual Effective Property Tax Rates report, which examines two- and ten-year trends in estimated…

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It's been a bad decade for property taxes

This article covered the annual Effective Property Tax Rates report, which compared estimated effective property tax rates in the six-county…

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Study Compares Property Tax Burden In Northeast Illinois from 2007 to 2016

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Estimated Effective Property Tax Rates 2007-2016: Selected Municipalities in Northeastern Illinois

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Time for the City of Chicago to Reassess the Garbage Collection Fee?

As part of the FY2016 budget approval process during fall of 2015, the City of Chicago for the first time imposed a waste removal fee of $9.50 per month on approximately 600,000 residents already receiving waste removal services provided…

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An Examination of Counties in Illinois

As part of an ongoing series about local governments in Illinois, this blog post will examine the revenues and expenditures of …

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Cook County real estate is $100 billion behind

This article discusses the findings of the Civic Federation’s Estimated Full Value of Real Property in Cook County: 2007-2016. In 2016, the last year for…

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City Colleges of Chicago Adopts New Hybrid Tuition Structure

On April 5, 2018 the City Colleges of Chicago Board of Trustees unanimously approved Board Resolution 33420, which changes the tuition rate from a tier-based…

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Measuring The Productivity Of CTA Operations

The Civic Federation recently released its analysis of the CTA’s FY2017 Budget. The Civic Federation supports the Chicago Transit Authority’s FY2017…