Cook County Finally Delivers: Barrington Resident Receives Long-Awaited Property Tax Refunds Worth Thousands

CHICAGO (WLS) — The ABC7 I-Team has revealed new developments in their investigation concerning extensive delays, with signs of progress finally emerging.

A woman from the northern suburbs is at last receiving property tax refunds amounting to thousands of dollars after enduring months of unfulfilled promises from Cook County.

This breakthrough comes 18 months after the I-Team initially exposed errors in the square footage calculations performed by the Cook County Assessor’s Office.

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Assisting a resident of South Barrington, the I-Team helped demonstrate that the county assessor’s office had inaccurately measured the square footage of her property.

Though the initial report surfaced in October 2024, she has been eagerly awaiting the refund of her property taxes ever since.

Initially, bureaucratic red tape caused significant delays, requiring a subsequent I-Team report to secure her the necessary certificates of error.

Then, just when Sherry Schnell though that she was going to get almost $10,000 in refund checks, there was another delay. The major holdups were due to upgrades to the county’s computer system by the private company, Tyler Technologies.

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