COOK CO., Ill. - Cook County homeowners will finally receive the second installment of their property tax bills soon, after months of delay due to technology problems.

What we know:

County officials announced that bills for about 1.8 million properties will be mailed to owners on Nov. 14.

The payments are due on Dec. 15.

Cook County officials have blamed a decade-old contract with a Texas-based company called Tyler Technologies for the delay. The county entered into a contract with the company in 2015 in hopes of modernizing the property tax billing system within three to five years.

But it hasn’t gone according to plan.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said the company had made so many errors that if bills had gone out earlier this year, some taxpayers would have received in

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