Overview
- Associated Press results show Hynes with 52.5% of the vote to Kaegi’s 47.5%.
- Hynes, the Lyons Township assessor and a former 23-year field inspector in the county office, ran with the Cook County Democratic Party’s endorsement.
- Reporting documented roughly $106,500 in Hynes donations from property tax attorneys and firms, a focal point of Kaegi’s criticism.
- Kaegi argued Board of Review cuts to commercial assessments drove homeowner hikes, while Hynes faulted Kaegi’s pandemic-era adjustments and emphasized adding new construction to the tax rolls.
- Analyses cited by local reporting found tax burdens rising fastest in predominantly Black South and West Side neighborhoods, and Hynes now advances to face Libertarian Nico Tsatsoulis in November.