Vicki McCarthy

“Our house, when we purchased it in 2002, we paid $195,000. I believe the fair market value right now is maybe below $180,000. To pay almost $8,000 in property taxes for a house that is not even valued at $200,000 is insane.

“I wasn’t born here, I moved here from Mississippi in 2000. I moved here by choice. I really like the area, I do, it’s nice. I don’t want to move, but I will if I have to. If Illinois doesn’t change as a state, I will. I’ll bail.

“I think consolidation is a part [of the solution]. I think it would be a good thing …”

“[But] I don’t know what it’s going to take. I know all of the mayors in all of the little villages in our little area have enough of an ego that none of them are going to say ‘for the betterment of our community, let’s consolidate.’ Who is going to give up their position? Their little fiefdom?”

Vicki McCarthy
Round Lake Beach