March 31, 2011
The Civic Federation drafted and successfully advocated for historic reforms in the Cook County property assessment appeals process. From 1994 to 1998, the Civic Federation intensively engaged with State legislators and Cook County officials to fundamentally reform the assessment appeals process and remove impediments to taxpayers’ efforts to file and win appeals of their property tax assessments. This effort involved the creation of a task force and publication of a report that was read in toto into House Bill 1465 in the spring of 1995 and became Public Act 89-126 later that year.