Cook County’s Assessor in times past for as long as I have followed the office (starting with PJ Cullerton’s corruption in the late 1960’s), has been hide-bound, even under reformer Houlihan James.
For decades only one-fourth of the county was assessed each year. That meant three-fourths of the county was underassessed, resulting in the most recently re-assessed quadrant bearing more than its fair share of the real estate tax burden.
The inequities could have been ameliorated by using quadrant equalizing facts (commonly called “multipliers” in the rest of Illinois, but, even when I brought up the subject to my former House colleague Houlihan, who could have gotten necessary authorizing legislation enacted, nothing happened.
Then, there was a slight improvement.
From assessing one-fourth of the county each year, Cook County started assessing one-third each year.
An improvement, but not a giant step toward equity.
Trident multipliers would helped a lot, but no such effort was made.
Now, Assessor Fritz Kargi, an avowed reformer, has decided to adjust assessments on all homes this year using Coronavirus as the reason.
The Tribune story reports,
To calculate the adjusted home values, the assessor’s office estimated regional unemployment and declines in housing prices in each neighborhood in the south and west suburbs. Townships in that area that already received initial values this year will receive new numbers after the assessor’s office calculates the COVID-19 adjustment.
There’s more in the article.
I’m just thankful that Cook County is doing what pretty much every other county has been doing since I started following real estate assessments in the late 1960’s.
You are disgusting, and you are contributing to the violence and the disinformation.
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Her statement was based on propaganda and you got sucked in and you are spreading the propaganda.
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You should be ashamed of yourself.
I had thought you were fair-minded, even-handed and objective.
And you seek out the truth.
Obviously that is not the case.
You are culpable in promoting these lies and their after effects.
https://youtu.be/t6WMYCr3qWM
Now let’s be fair.
Since Floyd was a lying, a cheating, a thieving black thug, well then pillaging and stealing and beating people would be honoring him exactly, “to get themselves some in memory of old Floyd”.
An ode to the followers of Floyd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHUhxGbIZw
^Abe, I was hoping for a Pink Floyd cover of “Money,” but you posted a meme video.
I am disappointed.
Start looking into Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, and InfoWars being controlled opposition. It is not sufficient to “own the libs” if you’re just the other wing of the same bird flying into ruin.
Anybody pushing race war/civil war should immediately be disregarded and flagged as controlled opposition.
That video you posted is titled Helter Skelter.
If you don’t know what that is, look it up. What a LARP for a title.
Wake up, Abe. The elites WANT that to happen. Don’t glorify it or take it lightly with memes.
A note to EVERYBODY on this site:
Do NOT encourage MAGA people, white people, or right-wingers in general to get involved with the violence.
That will only feed the narrative, escalate violence, and bring in more government that will NOT be friendly to you.
Did you notice how quickly the media shifted the narrative from rioting is patriotic like Martin Luther King, JFK, and George Washington to (after cities started being burned on live television and the CNN HQ was vandalized) “actually the violence is bad and it is being caused by Russians, Trump supporters, and white nationalists.”
They want nothing more than for some MAGA hat guy to attack a black person.
It would be on the news 24/7 just like the media slurped up that totally ridiculous Jussie Smollet story.
And what are you even doing posting these 2016 era vaporwave memes?
It’s cringe.
Correcting …..are you an ostrich?
AOC said white supremacists started the looting and violence.
But all the the arrestees in NYC are ANTIFAgs and negro thugs.
Go back to your melting pot cream dreams!
What is Han Bell kvetching about now?
Did Cal remove something?
Or is Bell going full mental again?
The democrats in all of the blue states are days late and billions lost in calling out the national guards to protect lives and private property.
It is pathetic that the cowardly lions in California did not see this coming with a week’s times to prepare the national guard for the riots and looters in this state.
Did they NOT know that the people of California have 3 generations of rioters and looters under their belts?
They do not need George Soros billions paid to black lives matter and to antifa for the rioting and looting to begin.
We already have pros here in california.
All night long you see locals with their hands up in front of the police lines acting as shields protecting George Soros’ ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter paid THUGS!
Justice would in a sane society call for the arrest of George Soros and of all of his paid thugs.
We have the government in California and in its cities that we deserve. Californios: keep on voting on voting democrat.
And the lesbian mayoress says F U to trump in a public speech?
Correcting is finally speaking in half-truths. Come all the way, Correcting. Do not encourage ANYTHING to do with politics. It is all a sham. Yesterday I saw people riding bikes and working in their yards all over my neighborhood. Those people are living their lives.