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The Cook County Treasurer oversees what is the United States' second-largest system of property tax collection and distribution. [1] The inaugural holder of the office of treasurer was Archibald Clybourn, an early settler of Cook County. [2] The office was established in 1831, and since 1835 has been an elected, partisan position.
Before the creation of the position of Cook County Assessor in 1932, the Cook County Board of Assessors completed assessments in Cook County. [1] The Board of Assessors had been created after a law passed by the Illinois General Assembly on February 25, 1898 created a Board of Assessors in counties with 125,000 or more inhabitants. [1]
The century-old, neoclassical County and City Hall building (left) in the Chicago Loop houses the County Board chambers and administrative offices The government of Cook County, Illinois, is primarily composed of the Board of Commissioners, other elected officials such as the Sheriff, State's Attorney, Treasurer, Board of Review, Clerk, Assessor, Cook County Circuit Court judges and Circuit ...
The Cook County Board of Review is vested with quasi-judicial powers to adjudicate taxpayer complaints or recommend exempt status of real property, which includes: residential, commercial, industrial, condominium property, and vacant land. There are approximately 1.8 million parcels of property in Cook County. The Board of Review adjudicated ...
On July 22, 2008, the Cook County board voted against Cook County Commissioner's proposal to repeal the tax increase. [31] In 2016, Cook County joined Chicago in adopting a $13 hourly minimum wage. [32] Cook County Board chairman John Daley called the wage hike "the moral and right thing to do."
Palatine Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 114,403. [2] It is the north central township of the six northwest townships that form the Cook County panhandle. Palatine Township was organized in 1850.
Transportation Taxes and Fees Lockbox Amendment (2016) Fair Tax (2020) ... In the 2010 Cook County Assessor election, incumbent Assessor James Houlihan, ...