Illinois Tax Lien Certificates

Under Illinois law, the Treasurer's Office is required to conduct two types of real estate tax sales in which delinquent property taxes are sold. The first is the Annual Tax Sale, held once a year, sometime after the second installment. The sale might be held any time from the Fall of that year to the Spring of the following year. The second is the biennial Scavenger Sale (conducted in odd-numbered years), which offers tax deeds on properties that have delinquencies of two or more years that were not purchased at the annual tax sales. Sales are normally conducted during the summer months. Specific information on county tax sales is available by clicking on the links in the table below.  Counties are listed by population size in decreasing order.

Rogue Real Estate Investor Collection contains detailed information on tax sales in all 50 states, including Illinois tax lien certificate sales.