Cook County Board of Review Chairman George Cardenas gaveled in the Board’s 2023 tax session opening Group 1 two months and 10 days earlier than the Board opened the 2022 tax session (November 21st) and three months before 2021’s opening (December 6th). An earlier opening to the tax session is one of several initiatives the Board is taking to get bills out on time next year, in addition to implementation of the Tyler IASWorld Bridge and rearrangement of the Township appeal schedule in conjunction with CCAO.  The 2022 Cook County tax roll is scheduled to be certified September 1st. This year the Board will focus on helping Cook County residents who are victims of this summer’s flooding to know their rights and apply for all County property tax assistance for which they are eligible. Chairman Cardenas, partnering with local governments, will be hosting workshops in Berwyn, Cicero and Riverside throughout August and September. Residents in Southern Cook County are seeing big changes in their proposed assessments as they are reassessed this year. Multiple townships in the Southern Triennial Reassessment are seeing Assessed Value increases of more than 50 percent. The Board will be in those areas educating taxpayers about the appeal process. The Board will open 10 townships for appeal in September, with Barrington, Calumet, Norwood Park, Oak Park and Riverside opening September 11th in Group 1 and Berwyn, Cicero, Hanover, River Forest and Rogers Park Townships opening September 18th in Group 2.