This first one from the Illinois Institute’s Eric Allie is good except for the fact that homes in Cook County are assessed so much lower than those in surrounding counties.

In the article below, one can see the effective tax rate in Cook County is 1.98% of market value, considerable lower than ours in McHenry County.

Allie’s other cartoons this week are spot on:

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