09.18.05
This report compares total property tax bills in selected communities in metropolitan Chicago, and finds that the effective rate for most communities studied fell between 1999 and 2003.
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02.16.05
This report provides a trend analysis of indicators that measure the financial health and performance of 9 major local government pension funds from 1998 to 2003. It finds a combined $9.7 billion...
02.08.05
The Civic Federation's legislative priorities for 2005 include the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District, property tax exemptions and assessment reform, public employee pensions,...
01.28.05
The Civic Federation opposed the County’s $3.04 billion FY2005 budget because it does not reduce operational expenditures or implement increased efficiencies and it is balanced by means of two new...