The Assessor sends its result by mail. A Board of Review decision is on the Board's Decision Search Portal, which you search by your PIN or your complaint number.
Your result at the Assessor
The Assessor decides after your township's window closes, usually within a few weeks to a few months. It sends the result by mail. If you filed online, the Assessor emailed you a filing ID and a docket number when you filed; keep them for any question about your appeal.
Your result at the Board of Review
The Board of Review decides later the same assessment year, before second-installment bills are issued. Its Decision Search Portal shows your appeal's outcome, the PINs on your complaint and the assessment before and after. Search by your complaint number or your 14-digit PIN, and narrow it by tax year and township if you like. If you have neither, you can search by property address.
What a reduction means
If your assessment is reduced, the lower tax shows on your second-installment bill the following year. For a home, a reduction usually stays in place for the rest of your township's three-year reassessment cycle. The county can change it in a later year, so we review your assessment each year.
If the result is not enough
If the Assessor said no, or gave a small reduction. If the Assessor denied your appeal or gave a small reduction, you can file again at the Cook County Board of Review in your township's window. The Board decides independently of the Assessor. Look up your property and we will tell you whether a Board appeal is worth filing. Our fee is 25% of the additional first-year savings the Board of Review grants, only if it lowers your assessment further.
If the Board's decision is still too high. After the Board of Review decides, you can go to PTAB or to the Circuit Court, not both. The PTAB deadline is 30 days from the Board's written decision, or from the date the Board sends its final action on your township to the Assessor, if that is later. If we filed your appeal, we tell you whether an appeal to PTAB, or a tax objection complaint in the Circuit Court, is worth filing; you decide, on the same fee terms.
If you missed the windows. If you missed both windows this year, a Certificate of Error can still correct a factual error or a missing exemption, and every township's windows open again next year.
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