Summary: <p>Illinois residents pay the second highest property taxes in the nation. In fact, property tax bills here can be just as high as your mortgage payment.</p> <p>These absurdly high property taxes force many families to leave the state, or worse, lose their homes altogether.</p> <p>It’s one thing if high taxes come with great government services. But Illinois schools perform below the national average on standardized testing, and more than a third of every dollar that’s supposed to go to classrooms actually goes to public pensions and debt.</p> <p>How did we get here?</p>
