Margaret E. Graham
Senior Counsel
Margaret E. Graham helps clients with real estate tax issues such as assessments, exemptions, incentives, and government relations issues. Peggy saves her clients money by reducing their real estate tax burden to a fair and equitable amount. She also has litigation and arbitration experience and serves as a chair qualified arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Peggy resolves issues related to the appropriate assessment and tax treatment of properties at both the administrative and judicial levels of review, and she has a record of success across multiple jurisdictions. Her clients include developers, investors, property managers, condo associations, and realtors.
She has also represented:
- the Archdiocese of Chicago;
- Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Chicago;
- Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of Chicago;
- not-for-profit organizations; and
- commercial, industrial, corporate, and residential clients.
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- John Marshall Law School, J.D
- Dominican University, B.A.
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Bar Admissions
- Illinois
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Court Admissions
- Illinois Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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- Chicago Bar Association
Areas of client focus
2022 Real and Personal Property Tax Appeals
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2021 Notice of Tax Assessments Will Be Issued in February
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