With regard to McHenry County, it was right on target. Your reference to Cook County townships, however, misses the mark in suggesting that a case can be made that they are outmoded. The elected ...

Indeed, a Better Government Association report suggests that Cook County townships are sitting on buckets of cash, even as they tend highway budgets which are exponentially larger than those of ...

The Cook County ... 13 northern townships, bringing down the assessed value of all the properties to $3.29 billion from the $4.83 billion value set by Kaegi, who became the county’s assessor ...

Among four north Cook County townships that have been reassessed so far this year, New Trier and Evanston had the biggest increases, with the median single-family home's assessed value rising 25 ...