After months of uncertainty and delay , Cook County officials announced Friday that property tax bills will be mailed on Nov. 14 and due by Dec. 15.

Homeowners will thus be able to include those tax payments on their annual income tax filings, while ensuring taxing bodies will see much-needed revenue before the end of the year, though they might be less stoked to make massive payments to the county right around the holidays.

This year’s delay centered on the decade-long and expensive upgrade to the internal system used across the county’s property tax offices — the treasurer, clerk and assessor — overseen by the county’s Bureau of Technology and carried out by Texas-based Tyler Technologies.

This will be the first billing cycle fully carried out under the new Tyler system and off of

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