Chicago Heights adopts levy of $18M

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | The City Council on Dec. 17 approved the property tax levy in the amount of $18,259,032 for the fiscal year May 2012 to April 2013.

D.168 School Board OKs $4.36M tax levy

SAUK VILLAGE | The Consolidated School District 168 School Board unanimously approved a $4.36 million tax levy for the fiscal year 2013.

District 205 School Board approves $63M tax levy

SOUTH HOLLAND | The Thornton Township High School District 205 board unanimously approved a motion to levy $63 million in property taxes. The levy reflects a 3 percent increase over last year’s levy.

Sauk Village levies $2.29 million in property taxes

SAUK VILLAGE | The Sauk Village Board approved an ordinance to levy $2.29 million in property taxes for 2013. The levy is 3 percent higher than last year.

Thornton trustees OK $1.9M tax levy

THORNTON | The Village Board unanimously approved its annual levy ordinance on Monday.

Cal City officials say they want to lower tax levy

CALUMET CITY | City officials indicated Thursday they'd like to lower the municipal government share of property tax bills for the upcoming year by a little more than 1 percent.

Police officials keep alive lawsuit targeting freeze on Lake tax levy

CROWN POINT | A judge is permitting two Lake County police officials to continue suing the state to end a property tax levy freeze they claim has reduced local government jobs and services unfairly.

Cal City boosts tax levy by 4.9 percent

CALUMET CITY | A 4.9 percent increase in the amount of money city officials asked local homeowners to provide from property taxes easily could have been an increase of more than 10 percent, municipal officials said Tuesday.

Chicago Heights OKs 1.5 percent hike in tax levy

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | The City Council gave its approval last week to a property tax levy that asks for just 1.5 percent more money from local taxpayers than it did last year, a move that Mayor David Gonzalez thinks the city deserves credit for.

Property tax levies approved for Lansing taxpayers

LANSING | The Village Board and Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215 gave final approval in separate votes Tuesday to their property tax levies for the upcoming year.

Thornton officials say property tax levy won't increase more than 5 percent

THORNTON | Although the village's annual property tax levy ordinance has not been approved, residents can be assured any possible increase will be no more than 5 percent, officials said.