Will Co. official says IDOT’s airport land buys not costing local districts

Taxing districts are not losing money on state-owned land in the footprint of the South Suburban Airport, but those residents and farmers who remain on their property may be paying more, according to a Will County official.

The county’s supervisor of assessments, Rhonda Novak, told the county board’s airport committee last week that the taxing bodies receive property tax revenue based on 2002 rates for land that the state acquires and leases for residential and agricultural use…Please click here to read Susan Demar Lafferty’s story in the Southtown Star.