Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas attends 2024 budget hearings in October 2023. [Livestream]

The Cook County Treasurer’s Office has unveiled new data showing how wealthy, white homeowners tend to end up with a disproportionate say over property tax ballot measures each election.

“Rising property taxes always anger property owners,” County Treasurer Maria Pappas said in a news release. “Despite that, most don’t vote in referendums that determine whether their taxes go up or down.”