Mayor john cook office of the assessor
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Mayor john cook office of the assessor
Cook County Assessor
County clerk of Cook County, Illinois
Cook County Clerk | |
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Term length | 4 years |
Inaugural holder | J.L.
Jacobs |
Formation | 1932 |
The Cook County Assessor is the assessor and county government officer of Cook County, Illinois.
Office description
Before the creation of the position of Cook County Assessor in 1932, the Cook County Board of Assessors completed assessments in Cook County.[1] The Board of Assessors had been created after a law passed by the Illinois General Assembly on February 25, 1898 created a Board of Assessors in counties with 125,000 or more inhabitants.[1] The board had five members, with a rule that no more than four could reside in the same city.[1]
After an apparent fourteen-month delay in determining the 1931 assessment, it was decided that the structure of assessment in Cook County, with a five-member board of assessors and three-member Cook County Board of Review, needed to be restruct