Niles Township Assessor Scott Bagnall

12/30/2025

Niles Township is preparing to file appeals with the Cook County Board of Review. If you need help filing an appeal please complete the form on our website. Please read all information before submitting the appeal request form.

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11/12/2025

Thanks to the Skokie Public Library for hosting us for our “Ask the Assessor seminar:Reassessment Edition” on Monday! Thanks to everyone that came out despite the first snowball of the year.

10/23/2025

The potential for confusion during the next few months is high, with a CCAO appeal, quickly followed by a BOR appeal, and the mailing of the 2024 Second Installment tax bill sometime in between. We hope to mitigate some of the confusion with this check list.

Please remember that the actual tax bill is not appealable.

REASSESSMENT LETTERS: The County will mail the 2025 Notice of Proposed Reassessment on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
FILING APPEALS: We have plenty of time to get an appeal filed for everyone but please help us out by refraining from phone calls and especially by absolutely avoiding multiple filings. Multiple filings have become a significant issue. In an effort to keep the taxpayers informed we send follow-up/reminder emails. When we send these follow up emails some taxpayers re-submit an additional appeal request. This will cause both filings to be deleted and NOT FILED.

2025 CCAO APPEAL DATES:
10/22/2025 Cook County Reassessment notices are mailed to taxpayers.
11/17/2025 Last day to file a 2025 CCAO appeal request with the Niles Township Assessor Office
12/05/2025 Last day to file an appeal directly with the Cook County Assessor Office

TAX BILLS:
My best guess is that the bills could either be mailed “soon” or, months from now. I do not have enough information to support even a wild guess as to a mail date.
When your tax bill arrives and if you did NOT receive the exemptions that you are entitled/applied to, make an APPOINTMENT through our website AFTER 12/5/2025 to request assistance filing for exemptions.

EXEMPTIONS: We can not help process exemption certificate of errors during appeals. If you need immediate help filing exemptions on your current bill, make an APPOINTMENT through our website. The County will open the window for regular exemption filing in late February/March 2026.

APPOINTMENTS: Our office is by appointments only. Please make an APPOINTMENT through our website. We are available to assist during office hours but appointment requests allows us to block time for you and let you know what documents to bring.

EMAIL LIST: We recommend that you encourage relatives and neighbors to join the email notifications list. This is going to be the best source for property tax information. Join our email list today!

Niles Township Assessor Email Forms

03/05/2025

2024 Exemption applications are now available.

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12/26/2024

Appeals are the only way homeowners can contest the ASSESSED VALUE (AV) of their home. AV is one of three factors in calculating the property tax. The goal is to keep the AV as low as possible but also keep in mind that lowered AV does not necessarily result in a tax bill lower than in the prior year. But, the bill will be lower than it would have been without an AV reduction.

The first level of appeal for 2024 Assessed Values was to the Cook County Assessor Office (CCAO). The CCAO is now in the process of mailing their appeal decisions. There are thousands of appeal decisions to process and mail so let’s be patient and give it until 1/6/2025 before we start searching for decisions that have not yet arrived in our mailboxes.

The BOR is the second level of appeal. Niles Township is estimated to open for appeals with the Cook County Board of Review (BOR) soon.

We will begin accepting 2024 BOR appeal requests here at the Niles Township Assessor office now. Our office is planning ahead by making the REQUEST forms available for you to complete at your earliest convenience. In order to meet our residents' appeal needs we have created a LINK to our 2024 BOR APPEAL REQUEST form on our website. The form is our internal office form for you to REQUEST our assistance in filing your appeal with the BOR. We will analyze your AV and search comparables for your property and file an appeal with BOR on your behalf.

Go to our WEBSITE to complete the request form today. Once you complete all the required fields and click "SUBMIT" at the bottom of the screen, we will receive your completed form automatically. You do not need to do anything else. Once the appeal window opens we will file your appeal and you will then receive a submission email directly from Cook County Board of Review.

We can file a BOR appeal even if a CCAO appeal was not filed.

PLEASE DO NOT call or email us to confirm receipt of the REQUEST form. Our resources are limited and we WILL file all appeal requests before the BOR deadline. PLEASE understand that calls and emails may not be returned in a timely manner while appeals are open due to limited resources. We just do not have the resources during appeal time to return Emails or calls asking if we received your form. Please DO NOT send multiple submissions!

If you still have questions, EMAIL US. Our WEBSITE and FACEBOOK page will be updated as necessary with appeal information. Please refer to those sources for other questions you may have.

BOR 2024 AV appeal results will be several months in the future.

The filing of appeals is a Niles Township Assessor benefit for the taxpayers of Niles Township. There is never a cost or fee for appeals, or for any of the other services we provide.

Scott Bagnall
NilesTownshipAssessor.com

06/28/2024

2023 second installment bill is available online at cookcountytreasurer.com and will be mailed out on July 1, 2024.

05/17/2024

Due to Construction on our side of the building the assessor's office will be working remotely until further notice. Please email us at [email protected] for any questions you might have.

02/16/2024

Upcoming Seminar!

Scott Bagnall has served as Niles Township Assessor for more than 20 years. He will help answer all your questions pertaining to your Niles Township property taxes.

02/01/2024

First installment property tax bills have been mailed out. Due March 1, 2024. Payments can be mailed, made at Chase bank or online at cookcountytreasurer.com

12/20/2023

Our office will be closed Friday 12/22 and Monday 12/25. Office hours during 12/26 to 1/5 may also be reduced so please check this page for updates before stopping by.

You can always email us at [email protected] for the quickest response.

Happy Holidays.

11/20/2023

The Assessor's Office will be closed on Wednesday 11/22 through Friday 11-24 for Thanksgiving. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break! Feel free to email us if you have any questions. [email protected]

11/09/2023

Join us for our next Tax Seminar on Thursday 11/16 at 6pm. Register today at

The Niles Township Assessor, Scott Bagnall, will explain the process of and reasons for appealing your property’s assessed value, how property taxes are calculated, and how and when to file for exemptions. He will then answer your questions pertaining to your property taxes.