Homeowners have been far less successful than businesses in winning appeals for lower property tax assessments, a Chicago News Cooperative analysis shows — a discrepancy that strikes at a key issue in the race to replace James Houlihan, the retiring Cook County assessor. An examination of data found that from 2006 through 2008, Mr. Houlihan’s office granted tax cuts to only 17.3 percent of appeals on residential parcels, while non-residential property appeals during the same period were granted more than 40 percent of the time. Read more