Learn To Appeal Your Property Taxes At Seminar Tonight

By Pam DeFiglio

Here's your Today In Skokie report for Thursday, Sept. 12. 

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• Are your property taxes too high? Of course they are. Officials are hosting a Niles Township property tax seminar tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the American Legion Memorial Civil Center, 6140 W. Dempster, Morton Grove. They'll go over how to appeal your taxes. But be aware they don't set the taxes; for that, you need to go to your local school board and village board meetings and speak up. Also: come early. A similar event in Niles in March was mobbed. There's overflow parking in the forest preserve to the west.
• Was the South's defeat in the Civil War inevitable? Jim Kenney leads a discussion of "The Fall of the House of Dixie," Bruce Levine's new book that makes a case that it was. Kenney will also talk about how the Civil War's aftermath led to the tortured politics of the 20th Century. 9:30 a.m. at NSSC. 
• Concerned about recycling? Landfills? Where garbage goes? On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) wants to hear your opinion in community discussions it's holding. 
• Looking ahead: The Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, begins Friday evening and ends Saturday evening. Here is a guide to this Jewish holiday.
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