This story is a collaboration between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune. Chicago homeowners are being walloped with a record property tax hike, with some of the city’s poorest ...

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Homeowners in some of the city’s most affordable neighborhoods may be surprised to see a spike in their property tax bills that were mailed out Friday. Residential property tax bills are rising ...