Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget chief, Annette Guzman, has been getting homeowner property tax breaks on a South Loop condo she has not lived in since 2019, cutting her bills by roughly $3,400 over five years, records show. After reporters started asking questions, the Cook County assessor’s office canceled that exemption, ordered Guzman to repay $2,071.89, and says she has now paid up. The office’s erroneous exemption unit is still reviewing whether she should be billed for two earlier years of breaks she should not have received.
What the records show
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, county records show Guzman received $3,434.59 in homeowner exemptions on the South Loop unit while also taking exemptions on a Bronzeville condo where she actually…..