The Park Governments of Chicago 



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on the tax rolls by the County Clerk for the West Park Board 

 was $407,581. This was an increase in amount over the taxes 

 extended in 1908 of approximately ZZ 1-3 per cent, or the same 

 proportion of increase which the South Park Board obtained 

 in 1910. 



The statute did not change the mill tax rates which are 

 levied for the Lincoln Park Board. Aside from the mill taxes 

 the Lincoln Park Board also requests a lump sum amount each 

 year. In 1909 an unusually large amount was requested. Owing 

 to the increase in assessed values in 1909, although the total 

 Lincoln Park rate as computed by the County Clerk was lower 

 than formerly, the Board actually benefited by the new law in 

 that their 1909 levy was extended for $1,049,545, as against 

 $768,530 in 1908, an increase of $281,015, or 36 per cent. 



The rate of levy for the small park districts (of which there 

 are now seven) was not changed and the increase in assessed 

 value therefore also increased the amount of taxes which they 

 may levy. 



Although each district is enabled by the new statute to increase 

 its levy, the South Park District alone of the three large dis- 

 tricts is able to have the entire amount of the levy extended on 

 the tax rolls. In fact, as shown below, the amount extended on 

 the rolls for that district, and also for five of the small districts, 

 exceeded in 1910 the amount levied by the respective Park 

 Boards. It should be noted, however, that the increases in the 

 levies of the West and Lincoln Park Boards in 1909 represent 

 increases in amounts actually extended, after all reductions had 

 been made. 



Park 

 District 



Amount levied Amount actu- Excess of Excess of 

 by the Park ally extended levy over amomit ex- 



Boards 



South $2,600,000 



West 2,287,338 



Lincoln 1,125,521 



Fernwood 



Ridge 



Calumet 



Irving 



North Shore. 

 Ridge Avenue 



3,608 

 6,142 

 112 

 8,845 

 10,479 

 3,300 



on tax rolls, amount ex- tended over 



$2,601,159 



1,531,127 



990,239 



3,867 



6,542 



112 



9,256 



10,506 



3,544 



tended. 



s 



' 756,21 i 

 135,282 



levy. 

 $1,159 



259 



400 



411 



27 



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