Cook County, Illinois — from the county's own assessment roll.
1,679parcels in Hometown
1,660with a published assessment
$16,000median assessed value
0above the local median
A median has half of everything above it by definition, boards do not grant every
uniformity claim, and being above a median is a ground to argue rather than proof of error. These
are assessed values, not tax bills.
Deadline
30 days from the publication of your TOWNSHIP's assessment roll. Cook reassesses on a rolling three-year, township-by-township calendar, so your window depends on your township and not on the county.
Confirm it against your own notice — a late filing cannot be cured.
How to check your own
Type your Hometown address and you get the verdict, the comparison and the arithmetic — free,
without an account. If it says there is nothing there, it says so: roughly a third of properties get
told not to file.