If you’re a Cook County homeowner who spends winters in Florida, Arizona or other climate warmer than Chicago you don’t have to worry about rushing back to town to pay your taxes by the traditional early March due date. My office lets “snowbirds” and anyone else prepay taxes due the[Read More…]
Opinion
Column: Traffic calming project on 183rd Street remains in limbo
The 183rd Street traffic diet project is still on the table. But it’s over behind the butter dish and the extra salt shaker, not exactly the main course. There was a certain amount of excitement (and a dash of dread) in 2022 when Homewood Public Works did a test of[Read More…]
Column: County treasurer offers advice on avoiding the annual tax sale of delinquent property
Note: Maria Pappas is the Cook County Treasurer. If you still owe property taxes that were due in 2023, you’re running out of time to avoid the Annual Tax Sale. State law requires that the Cook County Treasurer conduct an annual sale of delinquent property taxes. To find out if[Read More…]
Column: Want to go paperless? eBilling lets you receive tax bills via email
Cook County property owners can sign up for eBilling for themselves or family members to receive property tax bills via email instead of print copies by snail mail. The eBilling option offers the convenience of allowing spouses to each receive copies of tax bills or multiple adult siblings to all[Read More…]
Page 2: Help the Chronicle celebrate 1st decade, help with election planning, celebrate pawpaws (next year), printing problem
The Chronicle is 10. That means the paper is basically a fifth grader, fully capable of all the basics like reading and writing and maybe even arithmetic. We’re ready to make the big leap to middle school. (Hoping we can skip algebra.) Like the best fifth graders, we’re listening to[Read More…]
Guest column: Fixing habitat fragmentation in our communities: Native plantings can help residents and roaming animals
Urban and suburban communities can benefit their mental and physical health while simultaneously preserving the natural environment by incorporating green spaces into their infrastructures. Homewood and Flossmoor are two communities that value their green spaces with large parks, golf courses and forest preserves found throughout both towns. While these spaces[Read More…]
Column: Change in law lets tax breaks automatically renew for homeowners with disabilities
State lawmakers have made it easier for people with disabilities to continue receiving property tax relief on an annual basis. Cook County homeowners who receive the Persons with Disabilities Exemption no longer have to reapply for the benefit every year. Lawmakers recently acted to allow the benefit to automatically renew[Read More…]
Letter: Protecting Illinois workers from heat is a hot topic
In most of the nation, all you need to do is to step outside to feel one of Nature’s deadliest hazards: extreme heat. So far in 2024, heat illness has killed 34 workers nationally both indoors and out. In July, the U.S. Department of Labor published of a proposed rule[Read More…]
Half Week | Aug. 11: Residents, village officials work to demystify local government
DEMOCRACY WATCH “Democracy is not a spectator sport.” That view might conflict with the more common assumption that the people’s role in a democracy is to elect leaders who then represent them, then the people go about their business and don’t get in the way of governance more than necessary.[Read More…]
Half Week | July 18: Truck traps, assessment town hall, scenes from sculpture walk and Spotlight show, Chamber Night
Gottschalk-the-Walk postponed Homewood’s chalk art event scheduled for Sunday, July 21, is being postponed, according to Community Engagement Specialist Antonia Urbanski. Complications following Monday’s damaging storm is part of the reason. Village hall was still without power Wednesday afternoon, July 17. Homewood Property Assessment Town Hall Homewood will host a[Read More…]
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