Solicitors are asking taxpayers to hire them to fix property value errors. Here's what you need to know.
Double-check all calls from the Cook County Assessor's Office because the contact may be a scam, a release from the office warns. People claiming to work at the assessor's office are calling residents, saying they have missing exemptions. The scammers then ask taxpayers to hire them to file Certificates of Error on their behalf. The certificate changes a property's assessed value for a past year, correcting the tax bill after the assessment is finalized. Kelley Quinn, communications director for the assessor’s office, said real employees never solicit taxpayers. Many of these so-called tax reps tell people they can get residents more money. "What they don't tell you is... they take 30 to 40 percent of that amount," Quinn said. "The …
A man paid a hefty price for almost two dozen pairs of Blackhawks that he never received.
A 53-year-old Oak Lawn man came to the Tinley Park Police Department last week to report that he'd been scammed by by a man who promised him Chicago Blackhawks tickets in exchange for a nearly $7,000 payment. The Oak Lawn resident told cops Oct. 12 that he met the seller at T.G.I. Fridays, 7200 191st St. in Tinley Park, earlier in October to do the exchange, according to the report. The 40-year-old seller said he'd fork over two tickets to 22 Blackhawks games. The Oak Lawn man wrote him $6,950 check. The check was cashed the same day and as of last week, the victim had yet to receive any tickets. The suspect is no longer answering his phone calls. The victim told police that he learned through a friend of the suspect's father that he didn'…
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5:09 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
When we lived in Chicago, every year or every half year, I can't remember, we would get a homeowner's exemption card to fill out and we did so. Since moving to Oak Lawn in 2001, we have never received a homeowner's exemption card. Were we supposed to be getting one all these years? more ›