COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Cook County residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to raise their property taxes.
68% of voters agreed to increase their property taxes in order to generate $40 million dollars more a year for the Cook County Forest Preserve District. It will mean an increase of about $20 dollars a year on a home valued at $300,000.
The money would be used to buy more land to protect it from development and to restore current forest land.
“With the results we see tonight on the referendum, it’s clear that people deeply appreciate all the benefits the Forest Preserves of Cook County provides, starting with access to nature so close to home. It’s exciting to see,” Arnold Randall, general superintendent of the Forest Preserves of Cook County, said in a statement.
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