Latest Cook County property tax bills available online
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Home and business owners in Cook County eager to learn how much their property tax tab is can get a bit of a head start by viewing — and paying — their bills online.
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced Tuesday that second installment bills for the 2022 tax year are available at cookcountytreasurer.com. Taxpayers can find their bill by clicking the blue box labeled “Pay Online for Free” and looking up their property by PIN or address.
All 1.8 million paper bills will be mailed on or around Nov. 1, Pappas’ office said in a news release, and all bills must be paid by Dec. 1 or interest to the bills will begin accruing.
These bills will reflect fresh valuations for the northern suburbs from Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office and reflect the 2022 tax year. That includes the townships of Norwood Park, Barrington, Hanover, New Trier, Schaumburg, Elk Grove, Evanston, Palatine, Maine, Leyden, Northfield, Wheeling and Niles.
Kaegi’s office is currently assessing the south and west suburbs. The Board of Review, an appeals body, has just begun receiving appeals on those 2023 assessments. An assessment appeal filed this year, if successful, would not be reflected until 2024′s second installment bill. In 2024, Kaegi’s office will reassess properties in the city of Chicago.
For most of the previous decade, second installment bills were mailed in July and were due by Aug. 1. But technological issues between the assessor and the Board of Review have led to finger-pointing and delays in sending bills during the pandemic. The rolling nature of the property assessment and tax billing cycles countywide made it difficult to immediately get back on track.
This year’s due date is an improvement compared with last year when bills were not ready until late November and were due by Dec. 31. The year before, second installment bills were due two months later than usual.
The next property tax bill — the first installment of the year — is typically due in March.
Pappas is encouraging taxpayers to pay online, even if they only make a partial payment or the first of several.
“Making partial payments lowers the amount of interest charged on overdue taxes,” she said in a release.
“There is no fee to pay online from bank accounts, but there is a 2.1% processing fee for those paying with a credit card,” she said.
Property owners may also print their bill and bring it to any Chase Bank branch, community bank where they have an account or to the Cook County treasurer’s office at 118 N. Clark St. in Chicago.
Property owners may also use the treasurer’s website to find out whether they are owed a refund for past overpayments or missed exemptions as well, Pappas said.
