Record Cook County property tax hikes under Toni Preckwinkle expose a fundamentally broken system, benefitting insiders and ...

As she campaigns for a fifth term as Cook County Board president, Toni Preckwinkle is saying the unit of government she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The due date for property tax bills has come and gone, but Cook County officials remain under siege. On one side, a group of ...

Cook County’s delayed property tax bills are straining school districts with nearly $122 million in unexpected, unneeded costs.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of property owners in Cook County are surprised by a change in the property tax grace period. The grace period is now four months shorter than it has been in the past. Many ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Action is being taken in Springfield aimed at extending the grace period for Cook County property tax payments. The house has passed a bill that would delay a delinquent tax auction ...

Your Cook County property tax bill could be delayed after a data error at the Cook County Assessor's Office is holding up a key step in the process. Assessor Fritz ...

The second installments of Cook County property tax payments are due this Thursday, Aug. 1. But residents have yet to even receive their bills. Officials attribute the significant delay to technology ...

CHICAGO -- ABC News, ABC-Owned Television Stations and the ABC7 Chicago I-Team are finding that too many Black and Latino homeowners are being "highballed." They are more likely to pay higher property ...

Karin Schluecker Korth says her house is too big for her, but she doesn’t want to leave. It holds the memory of her late husband Bruce, who died in 2015; his spirit is in the house, she says. Her ...

The Cook County treasurer’s recent report, “A Broken Property Tax Appeals System: How the Assessment Appeals System Disproportionately Shifts the Tax Burden onto Homeowners in Low-Income, Black, and ...