How to Appeal Your Property Taxes in Will County (and How to File It Yourself)

My assessment jumped about 25 percent, and my first reaction was the same one most people have, which is to assume somebody official had already checked the number and it must be right. Nobody had checked it. I appealed on comparable properties, and the valuation came down somewhere in the range of

Moving to Palos Heights, IL: Should You Buy a Home Here?

The three Palos villages are easy to blur together, and Palos Heights is the one that sits in the middle, in price, in feel, and on the map. It offers something its two neighbors do not: an actual walkable downtown, plus Lake Katherine and a close-in Metra station, wrapped around a settled, establis

Moving to Palos Hills, IL: Should You Buy a Home Here?

The three Palos villages get talked about as one place, but they are not, and Palos Hills is the one that surprises people. It is the affordable, denser, more practical member of the trio, home to Moraine Valley Community College and a housing mix heavy on condos, townhomes, and modest single-family

Moving to Palos Park, IL: Should You Buy a Home Here?

People tend to lump the three Palos villages together, and they are genuinely different places. Palos Park is the wooded, big-lot, slow-down end of the trio: horse trails, forest preserve on three sides, and a village center that still feels like a small town. If you want space and quiet inside a re