$63 million later, Cook County tax system still broken

Tax bills late. Local governments forced to borrow. And no end in sight.

A new report details the cost of Cook County’s dysfunctional transition to new technology to produce property tax bills.

“Nobody’s hands are clean,” one county worker involved in the upgrade told the inspector general. “We fought for years, yelling and screaming. We realized that this isn’t working.”…

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