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  • DuPage Policy Journal

    DuPage county

  • Illinois Valley Times

    Putnam, Bureau & LaSalle counties

  • Kankakee Times

    Kankakee county

  • Lake County Gazette

    Lake county

  • McHenry Times

    McHenry county

  • Metro East Sun

    Madison, St. Clair, Jersey & Monroe counties

  • North Cook News

    Streamwood to the North Shore

  • Rock Island Today

    Rock Island, Mercer, Henry & Whiteside counties

  • SE Illinois News

    Jefferson to Randolph and all the way down to Alexander and Pulaski

  • SW Illinois News

    Hamilton to White and all the way down to Massac and Pope

  • Will County Gazette

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  • Analysis: Property taxes rapidly eroding DuPage home values

    LGIS Reports | Feb 7, 2017

    In Jan. 2007, the average Willowbrook home was worth $305,000. Eight years later, in Jan. 2015, it was valued at just $182,000.

  • Analysis: Soaring property taxes eviscerating home equity in Lake County

    LGIS Reports | Feb 7, 2017

    Cross Lake, 89 acres in size, straddles the Illinois-Wisconsin border, an hour’s drive northwest of Chicago.

  • Analysis: North Shore home values fall while property taxes soar

    LGIS Reports | Feb 7, 2017

    Northfield, Kenilworth, Glenview, Northbrook homeowners suffered the biggest losses on the North Shore over the past eight years. Yet their property taxes continue to rise.

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