Who Wins the Cook County Property Tax Appeal

Commercial and land appeals win assessment cuts far more often than condo/co-op appeals and success varies widely by township, a descriptive who-files

The real public data behind Who Wins the Cook County Property Tax Appeal. . Files are hosted here directly so the analysis is reproducible; analysis.py reads only these files and prints the figures the paper reports.

• analysis.py

  Reproducible pandas script. Verifies the developments file is a subset of the portfolio, isolates OCII Western Addition-Area 2 (21 developments / 914 units / 821 income-restricted), tabulates tenure a

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  This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.

• cook-appeals-sample.csv

  5,000 real Cook County Assessor appeal records (Cook County Open Data, Assessor Appeals) with PIN, year, class, township code, hearing/appeal type, mailed and certified building/land/total values, the

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