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Two houses in Peotone, a few minutes apart, same village, same schools, same park district, same library, same county. One of them pays about 17 percent more in property tax than the other, every year, forever. The difference is not the house. It is which fire district the parcel sits in. That is th

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Fourteen parks for a village of nine thousand people. A splash pad, a skate park, a skate rink, pickleball courts, sand volleyball, bocce, shuffleboard, a sledding hill, and a downtown block with a jumping pillow and a zip line in it. And no park district on the tax bill. That is worth understanding

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You get a 454 acre forest preserve, two interstate interchanges within minutes, and a village where roughly 97 percent of homes are owner occupied. You probably already know that about Shorewood, and it is why you are looking here. Here is what you may not realize. Two high schools serve this villag

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