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Tax Caps

Public Act 93-0715 was signed into law and designed to cap increases on assessed value of property so that they will not increase by more than 7% in one year. To find out if your property is eligible, contact Cook County Assessors office. For questions about the law, contact State Representative Sara Feigenholtz at (773) 296-4141 or State Senator, 6th District, John Cullerton at (773) 883-0770.

High Rise - Life Safety Ordinance

The City of Chicago's Life Safety and High Rise Sprinkler Ordinances was implemented with the intent to better protect the lives of building occupants in pre-1975 high-rise buildings by requiring enhanced, more stringent and effective safety measures in both residential and commercial high-rise buildings. In addition to requiring sprinklers in most commercial high-rise buildings, the ordinance also requires residential high-rise building owners to submit thorough Life Safety Evaluations to the City.

The wide variety of the ways Chicago buildings were built, renovated and used during the past 100 years is the reason that every building must be looked at individually and evaluated for its potential to protect its inhabitants in case of an event such as a fire. The requirement of a Life Safety Evaluation concerns buildings that (1) were built prior to 1975, (2) are more than 80 feet in height, (3) are without sprinklers throughout, and (4) are occupied for non-transient uses.

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