Watchdog report on Cook County tax tech contract: ‘Nobody’s hands are clean’
- Posted on July 21, 2026
- By Chicago Tribune
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In brief
Cook County's decade-long property tax modernization initiative has become a cautionary tale of government inefficiency, with the inspector general documenting $63 million in expenditures amid widespread accountability failures. An investigation reveals systemic mismanagement across multiple stakeholders involved in the troubled technology contract, suggesting that responsibility for the project's failures is broadly distributed rather than concentrated.
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Watchdog report on Cook County tax tech contract: ‘Nobody’s hands are clean’
Cook County’s inspector general estimates the county has so far spent $63 million on its troubled decade-long property tax system modernization.
