Chicago is launching a property tax program setting aside $500,000 — some of which the city won by suing bus companies that delivered migrants from Texas — to pay for debt relief for households in three South Side neighborhoods, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced on Thursday.
Cook County separately announced a proposed new program to help a small group of taxpayers catch up on delinquent property tax bills.
The city program offers up to $5,000 to homeowners in Englewood, South Shore and the Lower West Side if they are at risk of losing their homes in a tax sale because of unpaid bills from 2023 or 2024, according to a news release from the mayor’s office.
It comes as part of the Jackson Park Housing Pilot Ordinance introduced by Ald….