Check the due date on your Cook County property tax bills that will arrive in the mail any day.
Property owners have an extra 30 days to pay their bills. The first installment, for the 2010 tax year, is due April 1, instead of March 1.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation extending the deadline in July but Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas reminded property owners of the change in a news release Monday morning.
The Illinois legislature changed the deadline for this year only, after second-installment bills were mailed late in 2010. The extension applies to Illinois counties with more than 3 million residents.
The amount of the first installment will remain the same: 55 percent of the previous year’s total bill.
asachdev@tribune.com
Did Maria send out that alert riding around in the back of her taxpayer funded limo? I almost bought in Cook County and thank goodness I didn’t. This state and county and their overnight increases scare me to death!
When will the voters ever learn. They held up the last bill two months to avoid it as an election topic. Now they are extending it a month. Does it really matter. Most of us will feel the pain of the ever increasing tax burden.
Next they will be getting major pay raises and hire more personal servants to clean their toilets.
Anyone notice the Tribunes revisionist processes? They just had a story insulating racism on the recent locally modified loans. They pulled once they realized it was all a big lie.