Submission + - Chicago Property Tax Bills Finally Getting Mailed After 'Modernization' Mess
Of the delayed modernization effort, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi said: "It was hard work. You have to go through the brain damage of converting all these different lines from an old mainframe to a new system. This vendor has sometimes made a lot of mistakes, and we have the biggest market based property tax system in the U.S. All of us agreed we’d retire the mainframe this year, but the treasurer and the clerk had their hardest work to do this year. We’re glad that they’re done."
Speaking of government software modernization efforts, how's that planned DOGE rewrite of the Social Security Administration codebase in 'months' going?