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5. If it's still 3,200 households, that comes to an annual $7.5 M / 3200 equals $2344 per household equals $195/month
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 02:41 PM
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(I have to use "equals" because DU software eliminates equal signs in the title line)

There were 1,974,181 households in Cook County in the 2000 census
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois

They give the total population too -- 5,182,617 in 2024-- which is down 3.6% from 2000.

If the number of households is also down by 3.6%, that would come to 1,902,900 households.

3,200 households is 0.17% of the total number of households (one in 595 households)

Averaging this largess over all households (or figuring out what it costs in taxes on average)

$7.5 million/year / 1.903 million households is $3.94 per household/year

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