TAX DEED – FORFEITURE SALE
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) SS
COUNTY OF COOK )
No.: ______________________________ Y
Case Number: ______________________
Preparer’s Information (Name & Address:
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
TAX DEED PURSUANT TO §35 ILCS 200/22. Tax Deeds and Procedures
At a PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE for the NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES held in Cook County on: _________________________,
the County Collector sold the real property identified by the Property Identification Number of: ______________________________,
and the ATTACHED legal Description, and Commonly Referred to Address of: _______________________________________,
______________________, Il ________. And the real property not having been redeemed from the sale, and it appearing that the
holder of the Certificate of Purchase of said real property has complied with the laws of the State of Illinois, necessary to entitle her,
him or it, to a Deed of said real property, as found and ordered by the Circuit Court of Cook County in Case Number:
________________________________;
Furthermore, I, KAREN A. YARBROUGH, County Clerk of the County of Cook, in the State of Illinois, with an office located at 118
North Clark Street, Room 434, in Chicago, Illinois 60602, in consideration of the premises and by virtue of the compiled statutes of
the State of Illinois in such cases provided, grant and convey to the GRANTEE(S): _____________________________________
which has/have a residence of:__________________________________________________________________________________,
and to his, hers, its or their heirs, successors and assigns FOREVER, the above-referenced real estate, as described.
Finally, the following provision of the Compiled Statutes of the State of Illinois, §35 ILCS 200/22-85, is recited, as required by law:
“Unless the holder of the certificate purchased at any tax sale under this Code takes out the deed in the time provided by law, and
records the same within one year from and after the time for redemption expires, the certificate or deed, and the sale on which it is
based, shall, after the expiration of the one year period, be absolutely void with no right to reimbursement. If the holder of the certificate
is prevented from obtaining a deed by injunction or order of any court or the refusal or inability of any court to act upon the application
for a tax deed, or by the refusal of the clerk to execute the same deed, the time her or she is so prevented shall be excluded from
computation of the one year period.”
Given under my hand and seal, this __________ day of __________________________, in the year ______________,
OFFICIAL SEAL OF COOK COUNTY:
_______________________________________ Clerk of Cook County
KAREN A. YARBROUGH, COOK COUNTY CLERK
