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County board member urges action after presentation showing townships missed required reassessments, shifting taxes to new homeowners
Summary
Steve Aubrey told the Taxes, Election & GIS Committee that many LaSalle County townships have not completed required four-year reassessments, producing sales-ratio shortfalls and township multipliers that raise tax bills for recently built homes; members asked staff to draft a position paper on enforcement options.
Steve Aubrey, a LaSalle County board representative for District 22, told the county’s Taxes, Election & GIS Committee that Rutland Township and numerous others have not carried out statutorily required quadrennial reassessments, creating large gaps between assessed value and market sales.
"In the state of Illinois by statute, every property is to be re-evaluated every four years," Aubrey said, describing 2024 sales-ratio results that he said ranged from about 23% to 28% where the statutory target is 33 1/3 percent. He handed members spreadsheets he said show an assessed-value (AV) shortage — citing Peru as an example with an AV shortage of $1,477,100 among 121 parcels that sold in 2024.
Aubrey and other committee members warned…
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