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Available in Park Ridge, Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, Kenilworth. This product prepares research; you review and file your appeal. Filing, representation and a reduction are not included.
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Property and assessment record
The selected PIN, published characteristics, assessment values and source dates.
Uniformity analysis
A computed assessment-per-square-foot comparison with the peer basis and arithmetic shown.
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Public assessment comparison
1012 Hastings Pl
PIN 09-26-303-069-0000 · tax year 2026
Published assessed value
$190,500
Building area
2,443 sq ft
Subject assessment / sq ft
$78
Peer median / sq ft
$29
Versus the peer median
+174%
Comparison group: R-1 homes built 1940–59 in assessor neighborhood 22111; 191 properties. This public comparison uses the dossier’s peer group. The paid builder’s case and selectable comparables should be reviewed separately.
Calculation: (78 ÷ 28.5 − 1) × 100 = 174% versus the peer median. Displayed values are rounded; the calculation uses full precision.
What this means: the records place this parcel above its peer assessment median. Property condition, omitted characteristics and newer records can change the interpretation.
Brief availability: the current product screen offers a uniformity brief for this sample. This is product eligibility, not a legal determination or a filing deadline.
The builder also shows town context beside the assessment record: what Park Ridge levied, from the published meeting-records research. It is cited context, never a savings figure.
What the town levied
The adopted levy is a town-wide total from the City’s ordinances, shown beside this property’s assessment for context. It is not what this property paid and changes no figure in the brief.
The City Council adopted a property tax levy for the City and the Library of $19,127,311 on Dec 15, 2025, $794,006 more than the earliest in these records (2017).
p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-12-15, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-12-15, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 57 · Staff memo of Public Hearing for Fiscal Year 2026 Budget, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
Change from the earliest to the latest adopted levy
$794,006
The latest adopted levy, $19,127,311, compared with the earliest, $18,333,305.
Calculation
Latest levy as a share of the earliest
104.3%
The latest adopted levy divided by the earliest adopted levy.
Calculation
Decrease in the second levy year
$1,852,302
The levy approved on December 17, 2018 compared with the one approved on December 18, 2017.
Calculation
Increase in the latest levy year
$527,543
The levy approved on December 15, 2025 compared with the one approved on December 16, 2024.
Calculation
Increase in the City's own levy in the latest year
$360,745
The City's own share of the latest levy, $14,790,590, compared with its levy the year before, $14,429,845.
Calculation
Latest levy as a share of the earliest net levy
106.1%
The latest adopted levy divided by the net levy in the earliest year's staff scorecard, $18,021,639.
Calculation
The levy series as the finding states it
Dec 18, 2017 · Source record
The earliest levy in these records
At its meeting on December 18, 2017, the City Council approved the levy for the City and the Library at final reading, and the roll call shows the motion carried 6–0. The staff scorecard for that final reading puts the total at $18,333,305, with a net levy of $18,021,639 beside it. At the meeting on December 4, 2017, the levy motion as first presented listed $19,425,265; the Council amended it, and the main motion as amended carried 7–0. The amount approved at final reading was the lower one.
p. 2 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of Ordinances for the 2017 Property Tax Levy as follows, City Council, Dec 18 2017. Open the quote and source.
p. 4 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2017-12-18, City Council, Dec 18 2017. Open the quote and source.
Dec 17, 2018 · Calculation
A lower levy the next year, after the Library Board cut its portion
At its meeting on December 17, 2018, the Council approved the next levy as part of its consent agenda, whose motion carried 6–0. The staff scorecard for that final reading puts the total at $16,481,003, $1,852,302 less than the year before. The same scorecard lists the Library Board's resolution as a reduction of $1,957,524, more than the fall in the whole levy.
p. 2 · Staff memo of Approve the 2018 property tax abatement for $1,950,141 for the payment of General Obligation Bonds, Series 2016, City Council, Dec 17 2018. Open the quote and source.
p. 8 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2018-12-17, City Council, Dec 17 2018. Open the quote and source.
Dec 21, 2020 · Source record
Increases over the next two years
The levy approved on December 16, 2019 came to $17,559,850 in the staff scorecard for its final reading, and the motion carried 5–1. The one approved on December 21, 2020 came to $18,437,844, and that motion carried 5–2. The Library tax stayed at $4,008,000 in both ordinances, so the second increase was in the City's own funds; the staff memo for the second of these levies lists the police pension part of the net levy at $3,166,400, up 23.3% from the year before, and the fire pension part at $2,763,637, up 17.4%. The City's budget states that it stopped levying for debt service beginning with tax year 2019, the year of the first of these levies.
p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of Ordinances for the 2020 Property Tax Levy, City Council, Dec 21 2020. Open the quote and source.
p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2019-12-16, City Council, Dec 16 2019. Open the quote and source.
Dec 4, 2023 · Source record
Little change while the City's own request stayed level
The levy approved on December 6, 2021 was $18,518,005, which the minutes record the Finance Director describing as an overall increase of 0.43%, and the motion carried 5–1; the Library tax rose from $4,008,000 to $4,088,160. The City's budget states that its own request for the levy approved on December 19, 2022 equaled the two before it, at $14,429,845. The ordinances approved on December 19, 2022 and December 4, 2023 both levy $4,088,161 for the Library, and the second of those motions carried 6–0.
p. 4 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-12-04, City Council, Dec 4 2023. Open the quote and source.
p. 5 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of Ordinances for the 2020 Property Tax Levy, City Council, Dec 21 2020. Open the quote and source.
Dec 15, 2025 · Calculation
The two most recent levies
The levy approved on December 16, 2024 was $18,599,768 and the one approved on December 15, 2025 was $19,127,311, $527,543 more; both were approved as part of a consent agenda, whose motions carried 6–0 and 7–0. The City's budgets put its own levy at $14,429,845 for the first of these, the same as its request for the levy approved on December 19, 2022, and at $14,790,590 for the latest, $360,745 more, which the budget describes as a 2.5% increase. The latest ordinance levies $4,336,721 for the Library, which with the City's share makes up the total.
p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-12-15, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-12-15, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
Dec 15, 2025 · Calculation
Change from the earliest to the latest levy
From $18,333,305 at the earliest adoption to $19,127,311 at the latest, the adopted levy rose by $794,006, so the latest equals 104.3% of the earliest. The path was uneven, with the drop of $1,852,302 in the second year and increases in most years after it.
p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-12-15, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 2 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of Ordinances for the 2017 Property Tax Levy as follows, City Council, Dec 18 2017. Open the quote and source.
What the finding does not establish
What any particular tax bill paid, which also depends on assessments, exemptions and other taxing bodies.
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