While public safety is, and will continue to be, the focus of our campaign, our unsustainable real estate tax burden will also be given significant attention. The real estate tax burden placed on our residents is simply impossible and is driving retirees out of Illinois. These taxes also have a devastating impact on home affordability as real estate taxes drive up the cost to rent either a home or apartment.
To bring these taxes under control, we need to grow our commercial tax base, consolidate government services in an effective manner, and cut unnecessary government “bloat” from our budget. Over the next couple weeks, I will offer a number of ideas as to how we can best go about reducing real estate taxes and offer examples of actions that I have taken on a City Council level to help reduce our residents real estate tax burden.
Click the button below to view our Campaign Platform. Under the first section, there are links to articles and news coverage of my work on real estate tax reduction.
