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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.
Built from 1922 to 1926, the building housed the Union Trust & Savings Bank, which was founded in 1901 by August Schlafly. Architect Thomas Imbs designed the Classical Revival building. The bank's opening followed a major race riot and a series of corruption scandals in East St. Louis, and its construction marked a turnaround in what had until ...
The two-story building was completed in 1896. [1] [2] It was designed by architectural firm Eames & Young in the Beaux-Arts architectural style.[2]It was home to the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, a local bank which "financed transportation and communication networks in the St. Louis region, and was a supporter of the St. Louis World's Fair". [2]
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Commerce was founded by Francis Reid Long with $10,000 in capital in 1865, just as communities were rebuilding during post-Civil War Reconstruction. Originally known as the Kansas City Savings Association, it was acquired in 1881 by Dr. William Stone Woods and renamed the National Bank of Commerce, claiming at the time to be the largest bank west of Chicago. [5]
The Cook County Tax Assessor’s Office has reportedly miscalculated land values for over 4,400 homes. Chicago homeowner stunned after getting a notice that his property taxes skyrocketed from ...
In the middle of a term as state senator, Topinka joined the Illinois State Treasurer race in 1994 and won the election. She was reelected in 1998 and 2002. As state treasurer, Topinka cut a deal to allow hotels that were owned by indicted Springfield power-broker Bill Cellini [ 7 ] to pay $10 million to settle their debts which totaled $40.3 ...
The Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site is an historic bank building in Old Shawneetown, Illinois, and is the oldest structure in Illinois built specifically as a bank. [2] A Greek Revival structure built in 1839–1841 in what was then called Shawneetown, it was the home of a series of banks into the 20th century.