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…
The Civic Federation recently released its annual Effective Property Tax Rates report, which examines two- and ten-year trends in estimated…
Click here to read this issue brief. This annual brief provides a compilation of selected consumer taxes,…
This article covered the annual Effective Property Tax Rates report, which compared estimated effective property tax rates in the six-county…
Effective tax rates increased for all selected communities in ten-year period analyzed (CHICAGO) The Civic Federation released its annual estimate of effective property tax rates in the six-county region of northeastern Illinois today.…
Update: Collection of the City of Chicago’s tax on other tobacco products has been moved from a starting date of March 1, 2019 to no sooner than April 1, 2019 or 60 days following the plaintiff’s deadline to file an appeal, according…
The Illinois General Assembly passed a budget for fiscal year 2019 on May 31, 2018 and Governor Rauner signed it into law on June 4, 2018. The Institute for Illinois' Fiscal Sustainability has since then continued to analyze the enacted…
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…
2019 Civic Federation Legislative PrioritiesThe Civic Federation's legislative priorities for 2019 …
The Civic Federation conducts an analysis of the Chicago Transit Authority’s annual proposed budget each year. This analysis includes two measures used to assess CTA’s productivity over time: labor cost per actual unlinked passenger trip…