Supervisor of Assessments: Front Desk Application

As part of the assessment complaint process, you’ll need some specific information and supporting evidence to file your complaint including comparable sales, comparable assessments and photographs.

While you may have a variety of methods to obtain this information, your Peoria County Supervisor of Assessments and the Peoria County Board of Review want you to have a one-stop, convenient, timely and most importantly, free source for that information.  To meet your needs for comparable sales and assessment information, Peoria County has created an Assessment Front Desk Application. The application is based on the County’s geographic information system, a system that ties data to map-based information. If you’ve used any of the popular Internet map systems (like Googlemaps  or MapQuest), you’re probably already familiar with the basic idea.

The system is currently in the “late beta test” stage, which means it’s passed a rigorous internal testing and a later semi-public release to your local Township Officials. The information and features are complete and accurate, though we are still adding new features. Since the information it offers is so valuable to you in the appeals process, we wanted to make this version available even before the last bells and whistles are completed. To use the system now:

1. Using your Internet connection and Internet browser, navigate to gis.peoriacounty.org/website/external.
2. After reading the disclaimer, click the Parcel Search Tab. 
3. Type in the address of your property (the street number and street name are generally enough).
4. The system will return an overhead view of your property and a page of property characteristic particular to your property.
5. Click the Comparables link on the right to bring up your preset statistics that will most closely match your property.
6. Click Find Comparables, which will display a series of similar properties in your area and their values.

Please remember, it’s rare that any house will exactly match yours;  assessment professionals are specifically trained to assess value in a way that takes these differences into account. 

Complete help and directions for using the Assessment Front Desk system in Adobe pdf format are available in the Supervisor of Assessments Information Library. If you feel uncomfortable with using the system but would like the information, your Supervisor of Assessments personnel can walk you through the process here at the Courthouse. Location, phone numbers and office hours are available on the Supervisor of Assessment’s home page.