Tax bills are landing in mailboxes across Cook County — you can also find yours online — meaning home and business owners will finally know how much of the county’s $16.7 billion bill they’ll be picking up.

That overall figure is about 4% higher than last year. In its annual analysis of all 1.8 million bills, Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office — the one that sends those bills out — sought to identify what was driving those taxes up.

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