Property taxes have increased every year in Illinois for the past three decades. For the 2026 budget season, legislators and ...

Property records raise new questions about influential Cook County judge Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr. acquired a handful of Chicago homes from the estates of deceased clients when he was a solo law ...

With some residents facing record-high increases to their property taxes, Cook County commissioners on Thursday approved giving one-time payments of $1,000 to a limited number of households ...

Cook County’s delay in issuing property tax bills thanks to major computer glitches is taxing the finances of a broke Chicago ...

One patient in suburban Cook County came to an ER with symptoms and was isolated, while the other was from Chicago and ...

This is a particularly bad year in Chicago for second-installment property tax bills to arrive late. One year after Cook County property tax officials congratulated themselves for getting the ...

The Cook County Assessor’s Office approved a record number of exemptions for seniors and veterans with disabilities in Tax ...

It turns out what Tom Kuznar of Mount Prospect thought was a small problem is actually a big mess affecting 25,000 taxpayers.

Cook County commissioners approved amendments to Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s $9.94 billion 2025 budget and took their final 17-0 vote in the span of about an hour.