In re Application of the County Collector

Protestor, DARCO, Inc. (DARCO), owns two properties in Sangamon County. Petitioner, Mary Hancock, purchased those properties at a tax sale. DARCO redeemed the properties under protest and now appeals the orders of the circuit court refusing to refund any of DARCO’s redemption monies, even after sustaining DARCO’s protests and denying Hancock’s petitions for tax deeds. We allow Hancock’s motion to consolidate the appeals.

Hancock’s two May 1999 petitions for tax deeds alleged the following. At an annual tax sale on November 21, 1996, Hancock purchased 635 North Wesley in Springfield, Illinois,…