We found this article from chicagotribune.com to be pretty interesting: By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune reporter 6:29 p.m. CST, February 20, 2012 Besides the kids who ride through on their bikes or the homeowners who keep the grass neatly clipped, nobody ever really noticed a triangular 3-acre plot that’s a functioning but humdrum component of New Lenox’s flood-prevention system.Things changed last month when residents got a letter from a salty Channahon contractor tellin

Seems like Cook County is making changes to its website that were long overdue: Come April, Cook County property owners will be able to go to a single website to find all of the government information related to their homes or businesses.County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said the new site, set to go live April 1, will be “a one-stop shop” for records kept by five county offices: treasurer, assessor, clerk, recorder of deeds and Board of Review.The site will combine five

On February 8th 2012, Partner Emmett McCarthy will speak at the Chicago Bar Association about the law that governs the real estate tax sale/tax deed process. Mr. McCarthy’s attorney profile can be accessed by clicking here. If you would like to access the materials handed out at last year’s seminar, please click here. For more information and to speak to qualified attorneys in the field, please call 312-236-8400 or e-mail us at ft@flamm.com. #matthewflamm #lawfirm #propertyta

Our firm was retained to recover a valuable parcel of real estate in Lake County, Illinois, that had been lost to a tax deed. The owner had been misinformed by the County Clerk as to when the period of redemption would expire. By the time the owner learned of the mistake, a tax deed had been issued and the property had been sold to a developer. Matt Flamm and John Stanko filed a petition to vacate the tax deed order. A judge dismissed the case, but the Illinois Appellate Cour

Dissolution of a business can be as emotional as a divorce. Two individuals who had been co-owners of a business for more than 25 years disagreed as to the future course of the business, and one of them submitted his resignation. The other owner claimed that the resigning owner had violated an agreement not to compete with the business. The resigning owner contended that the business had failed to pay for his shares, relieving him of the obligation not to compete. A judge den

The firm was retained by banks that had made mortgage loans on individual condominium units. Unknown to the banks, real estate taxes for the year before the units had been individually assessed had not been paid and had been sold to tax buyers. Emmett McCarthy negotiated agreements that allowed the banks to protect the individual units in which they had an interest without redeeming the taxes on the entire project. #matthewflamm #lawfirm #propertytax #chicago #flammteibloomst

On April 29, 2011, Firm Partner Emmett McCarthy will participate in a charity hockey game with proceeds going to the Midwest Children’s Brain Tumor Center. Last year this event raised $42,000 for brain tumor research.  For more information please click the link below. Pioneer Local Article – Docs, jocks, and an ice arena that rocks. Visit Emmett R. McCarthy’s Personal Bio #chicago #flammteibloomstanko #emmettmccarthy #flamm #cookcounty

Our firm was retained to investigate what was believed to be a simple real estate tax issue. In actuality, a judgment against the client for approximately $6,000 had been recorded against a property owned by the client and a property that the client had lost to a tax deed. Both properties were sold at a Sheriff’s levy sale for $200,000, or approximately 33 times the amount of the judgment. Within the six-month redemption period, our firm filed a motion that resulted in the en

We represented the co-trustees of a trust which lost title through a tax deed to a 26-acre parcel of real estate valued at more than $4 million.  We contended that necessary parties had not been served with notice and that the tax purchaser had failed to disclose important facts to the court.  The trial judge dismissed our case, but we appealed and the dismissal was reversed.  After discovery and trial, the trial judge denied the relief we had requested.  We appealed again, a

Emmett McCarthy recently completed his term of service as Chair of the Real Estate Taxation Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. In doing so, Emmett joins Bruce Buyer, Matt Flamm, and John Stanko as past Chairs of the Real Estate Taxation Committee. #matthewflamm #lawfirm #propertytax #chicago #flammteibloomstanko #mattflamm #emmettmccarthy #jacobsen #mccarthy #teibloom #flamm #johnstanko #joelteibloom #stanko #taxsale #realestate #markjacobsen #taxdeed #cookcounty

Matt Flamm recently spoke to the Election Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, discussing several recent election law decisions in which the firm had been involved. Matt also discussed his experiences as a Voter Protection attorney in South Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, and the differences in voter registration and voting procedures from state to state. #matthewflamm #lawfirm #propertytax #chicago #flammteibloomstanko #mattflamm #e