01.27.20
The Civic Federation recently released its annual Effective Property Tax Rates report . The report highlights that in 2017 property tax burdens for many...
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11.30.18
As part of the FY2016 budget approval process during fall of 2015, the City of Chicago for the first time imposed a waste removal fee of $9.50 per month on approximately 600,000 residents already receiving waste removal services provided by City of Chicago employees. Chicago residences receiving...
05.31.18
The Illinois Department of Revenue announced last week that the final equalization factor for the Cook County 2017 property assessment year (taxes payable in 2018) is 2.9627.
The 2017...
02.06.17
Click here to read this issue brief. This annual brief provides a compilation of selected consumer...
01.05.17
Annually the Civic Federation releases a report on consumer taxes in the City of Chicago. Consumer taxes are charges for the consumption of goods or services and can be charged directly to consumers through retail transactions or passed onto consumers by businesses. This blog highlights the new...
12.19.16
2017 Civic Federation Legislative Priorities The Civic Federation's legislative priorities for 2017...
11.01.16
The Civic Federation supports the proposed FY2017 City of Chicago budget of $8.2 billion because it continues to work toward addressing the City’s unfunded pension liabilities and makes...
09.16.16
Decisions by two of the largest State of Illinois pension funds to reduce their expected rates of return on investment have garnered headlines , but they were not...
08.05.16
The City of Chicago recently released its mid-year Annual Financial Analysis for 2016 , which provides financial estimates for the City’s fiscal year ending on December 31, 2016 and a forecast for the next fiscal...