Bookmark Raila & Associates Self Help Resources page for links to helpful tax assessment documents, websites and other resources.

Site Tax Resource Pages

• Assessor’s deadlines link
• Cook County Tax Appeal Process
• Cook County Appeals Deadlines
• Property Tax Talks
• Tax Sessions: What You’ll Learn
• Long-Time Occupant Exemptions

Tax Resource Documents

• Calculating A Property Tax Bill
• Calculating A Property Tax Bill Example
• General & Leasehold Exemption Statutes
• Homestead Limited Exemption Application
  (Sample Landlord-Tenant Leasehold Exemption, Lake County)
• Sample, Annotated 1st Installment Bill
• Sample, Annotated 2nd Installment Bill
• Sponsor a Tax Talk form

External Resource Links

• Illinois General Homestead and Leasehold Statutes
• Homeowner Exemptions (8)
• Cook County Property Tax Portal
• Recovering Unclaimed Assets/Cash
• Guidelines for Catastrophic Events
• Guidelines for Flood Damaged Homes
• Disaster Area Application for Reassessment

Attention property owners receiving exemptions
on multiple properties

You can only receive the homeowner’s exemption on your primary residence. A new law regarding multiple homeowner exemptions was passed and you can find more information here.

If you are receiving exemptions on multiple properties and would like to remove the exemptions, you can find the waiver form here.