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County Building Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate |
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Tax Sale Overview:
If Cook county, Illinois is unable to collect real estate property taxes they are also unable to provide important government services like police protection, public schooling and medical services.
Unpaid property taxes create a serious cashflow problem for Cook county, Illinois.
Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Cook county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Cook county newspaper of general circulation. They are listed by sequence number. Parcels fall into 1 of 2 groups. Each group is sorted by parcel number.
The advertisement appears about three to six weeks before the Cook county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.
To solve this problem Cook county, Illinois allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Cook county, Illinois lien for taxes. A tax lien is simply a claim for delinquent taxes.
Why would investors do this?
Well, depending on Illinois laws and competition, savvy Cook county tax sale investors can realize high-yielding returns with Illinois tax lien certificates and/or purchase real estate for a fraction of its true market value with Illinois tax deeds.
Elected Public Officials:
| Name: | Position: | Email: |
| John Stroger Jr. | President, Cook County Board, Distr | |
| Jerry Butler | Commissioner, District 3 | |
| Forrest Claypool | Commissioner, District 12 | |
| Earlean Collins | Commissioner, District 1 | |
| John Daley | Commissioner, District 11 | |
| Elizabeth Doody Gorman | Commissioner, District 17 | eadgorman@cookcountygov.com |
| Gregg Goslin | Commissioner, District 14 | commissionergoslin@cookcountyg |
| Carl Hansen | Commissioner, District 15 | |
| Roberto Maldonado | Commissioner, District 8 | koskandy@email.com |
| Joseph Mario Moreno | Commissioner, District 7 | |
| Joan Murphy | Commissioner, District 6 | jpmurphy@cookcountygov.com |
| Anthony Peraica | Commissioner, District 16 | Peraicalaw@aol.com |
| Mike Quigley | Commissioner, District 10 | CommQuigley@aol.com |
| Peter Silvestri | Commissioner, District 9 | |
| Deborah Sims | Commissioner, District 5 | |
| Bobbie Steele | Commissioner, District 2 | bobbiesteele@earthlink.net |
| Larry Suffredin | Commissioner, District 13 | lsuffredin@cookcountygov.com |
| Richard Devine | States Attorney | |
| Michael Sheahan | County Sheriff | |
| Maria Pappas | County Treasurer | |
| James Houlihan | County Assessor | |
| David Orr | County Clerk | clerkdavid@cookcountygov.com |
| Eugene Moore | County Recorder of Deeds | |
| Dorothy Brown | Clerk Of Circuit Court | |
| Joseph Berrios | Board of Review Commissioner | |
| Maureen Murphy | Board of Review Commissioner | |
| Robert Shaw | Board of Review Commissioner |
Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.
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