Real estate sales data used by the Cook County Assessor to estimate Fair Cash Values for the purpose of property taxation. Deeds that include multiple PIN numbers are excluded from this data. This data is produced by joining sales data from the Illinois Department of Revenue against incomplete sales data from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds, parsing the resulting data to obtain data unique by deed number, and, in some cases, determining arms' length status of sales.

The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) forms the foundation of Cook County's cadastral system for identifying and locating land records. Tax parcels are identified using township and section notation, in a modified format. This PLSS feature data set is intended to correspond to tax pages in the Cook County Assessor's Tax Map book (current as of tax year 2000 for 66% of the County and as of tax year 2001 for the remaining 33% of the County), and should not be used for measurement or surveyor purposes. In addition, the parcel attributes PINA (area/township) and PINSA (subarea/section) do not necessarily correspond to the PLSS township and section polygon in which a given parcel resides. The PLSS data is modeled as a single composite network coverage that encompasses townships (area), sections (subarea), quarter sections, and half quarter section.

Single and multi-family (less than 7 units) property characteristics collected and maintained by the Assessor's Office for all of Cook County, from 1999 to present. The office uses this data primarily for valuation and reporting.

When working with Parcel Index Numbers (PINs) make sure to zero-pad them to 14 digits. Some datasets may lose leading zeros for PINs when downloaded.

Current property class codes, their levels of assessment, and descriptions can be found on the Assessor's website. Note that class codes details can change across time.

This data is improvement-level - 'improvements' are individual buildings on a parcel. Each row in a given year corresponds to a building e.g. two rows for the same parcel in one year means a parcel has more than one building.

Data will be updated bi-weekly. Rowcount and characteristics for the current year are only final once the Assessor has certified the assessment roll for all townships.

Depending on the time of year, some third-party and internal data will be missing for the most recent year. Assessments mailed this year represent values from last year, so this isn't an issue. By the time the Data Department models values for this year, those data will have populated.

NOTE: The Assessor's Office has recently changed the way Home Improvement Exemptions (HIEs) are tracked in its data. HIEs "freeze" a property's characteristics for a period of time with the intention of encouraging owners to improve their property without fear of assessment increases.

Historically, the updated, "improved" characteristics were saved in a separate file. However, in more recent years, the improved characteristics are saved in the main characteristics file. As such, the records in this data set from before 2021 do NOT include HIE characteristic updates, while those after and including 2021 DO include those updates.

For more information on HIEs, see the Assessor's Data Department wiki.

For more information on how this data is used to estimate property values, see the Assessor's residential modeling code on GitHub.

Township codes can be found in the legend of this map.

For more information on the sourcing of attached data and the preparation of this dataset, see the Assessor's Standard Operating Procedures for Open Data on GitHub.

Executive Recommendation for the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Summary of Positions by Business Unit. For more information on the budget and schedule of public hearings see http://www.cookcountyil.gov/budget/

By ordinance, the investigations and considerations by the Board of Ethics of potential violations of the Ethics Ordinance are confidential. County Code, § 2-592. As a matter of policy, the Board also maintains as confidential the identity of the requestors of advisory opinions. Board of Ethics Rules & Regulations, § 4.10. The Board, however, is undertaking to make its final determinations available to the public with such deletions as may be necessary to prevent disclosure of any information the Board determines to be confidential.