Holy Cow,   Kane County has increased their Homestead exemption from $5000 to $5500(this is for owner occupied homes).  the best thing about this is the fact that will increase again in 2009 from $5500 to $6000.  What this correlates to in bills may not be much but something is definitely better than nothing.

 The Senior exemption will increase from $3000 to $4000 in 2009 as well

Why am I telling you this in a Dekalb area blog? Firstly, I am hoping like everything else does, it travels from Chicago to the outlying areas then to us.   Secondly I do have Clients that currently live, want to live, or travel to/through Kane county and I thought this information was worth repeating to the masses.