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Recent News About Cook County Treasurer
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Cook County Treasurer, Circuit Clerk ask federal court to lift oversight of patronage hiring
The motions to lift the so-called Shakman Decrees are supported by reform advocates who had filed suit to impose the court ordered monitoring decades ago -
SCOTUS nixes Cook County appeal of decision that green lit taxpayer suit vs county over unfair propety tax assessments
County officials and a collection of school districts had argued letting the appellate court decision stand would open the floodgates to taxpayer lawsuits, potentially including class actions, in federal court. -
Appeals panel: IL property tax laws stymy property tax lawsuits, wrongly shield Cook County from answering for unequal assessments
A federal appeals panel has revived a lawsuit brought by a group of property owners against Cook County, as the judges say Illinois laws and tax appeal rules have created a system in which certain taxpayers can't get justice over unequal tax assessments. -
Overcharged Cook County taxpayers can't sue county in federal court over inflated assessments
A federal judge said he isn’t allowed to take jurisdiction over a lawsuit in which Cook County property owners claimed their property tax bills were falsely inflated so other properties could be underassessed and pay less. -
Federal lawsuit: Cook Co. makes it too difficult to appeal big tax bills; state law only enables
A group of property owners have filed a federal complaint challenging the legality, not only of their Cook County property tax assessments, but also of the state law that governs the assessment process and which they said aided the county's efforts to make it overly difficult to effectively appeal tax bills. -
Cook County assessor accused of improperly assessing taxes for couple who qualified for IDNR freeze
A couple has sued Cook County, Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios and Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas for allegedly failing to properly assess their property for tax purposes. -
Northwestern Business College Inc. accuses county officials of attempting to collect back taxes
A school is suing Cook County officials for allegedly attempting to collect back taxes on tax-exempt properties. -
Class action seeks to force Cook County to pay property tax refunds owed to payers who won appeals
Cook County is facing a class action complaint accusing it of being too slow - or outright refusing - to issue property tax refunds owed to taxpayers who had won a break on their taxable value from the county's appeal board. -
Cook County, officials accused of charging unlawful court fees
A woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Cook County Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas and Cook County, alleging they force litigants to pay unconstitutional fees.