Illinois Hospital Gets Charitable-Use Tax Exemption Reinstated

A hospital in Urbana, Ill., will receive a refund of property taxes it paid for eight years when the complex should have been tax-exempt, after a state appeals court ruled it provided medical care to everyone regardless of their ability to pay.

The Carle Foundation’s four parcels—the main hospital, a secondary tower, a childcare facility, and a power plant—should have been exempt from 2004-2011, just as they had been before 2004, the Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court ruled Aug. 4.

An intervening change in the law to simplify the method for resolving hospitals’ tax exemption claims applied to pending challenges ...