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Cook County Assessor Website Back Up After Outage

by Amy Judd | March 27, 2010 at 11:50 am

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The Cook County Assessor Website is Now Back Up

The Cook County Assessor website was down for hours on Saturday March 27 causing frustration for those who wanted to use it. The technology department for the website started working on it right away and now it is back up and loads normally.

The Cook County Assessor website is for residents of Cook County to look up public records and to access property tax information and as tax time is just around the corner, residents needed to use this website to access tax records.

It is not know what caused the outage or what was required to fix it, but everything seems to be working now, although the website may be under more load than normal due to heavy traffic.

Cook County has implemented new technology in the hope that the property tax bills will be able to be processed as quickly as possible and districts that need that money will not have to wait for it to pay their bills.

But Commissioner Timothy Schneider (R-Streamwood) noted that some of the projects in this year's capital plan – such as a new security camera system at the Daley Center – had been turned down by the board last year.

"After looking at some of the projects in the fiscal year 2010 capital bill, it looks to me like many of them are castoffs from the 2009 bill, and crow-barred back into the 2010 bond issue," Schneider said. "Why are we putting projects back into the capital bill that were previously rejected by this board?"

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Tomitheos Linardos

at 11:58 on March 27th, 2010

I wonder if it could be an Earth Hour power down..(?)

Amy Judd

at 12:26 on March 27th, 2010

Haha, I never thought of that!

Shirley Bee

at 10:08 on April 3rd, 2010

You may think that the Cook County Assessors page is up, but I have tried for 2 days to request a Senior Freeze form and each time am told"This file is damaged and could not be repaired." The time for filing is coming up and after calling the phone number given on the card sent from their office there is no chance to request anything - I am totally frustrated