The Tribune requested the past four years of tax returns from the Democratic candidates for Cook County Board president and ...

The case affects more than 1,700 homeowners who lost their properties in tax sales, but whether the county owes them money ...

The Cook County Treasurer's Office is providing $2.3B in emergency funds to local governments after long-delayed property tax ...

Treasurer Maria Pappas' office took "emergency steps" to send some of the more than $8 billion in property tax funds due to ...

Historic property tax increases will hit south suburban homeowners’ mailboxes in the coming weeks, according to a new analysis from the Cook County treasurer’s office that found median tax bills there ...

To the surprise of no one, Cook County property taxes went up again. Residential property tax bills surged 78% on a typical home between 2007 and 2024, while property values inched up just 7.3%. That ...

Real estate investors are downright scared of Chicago property taxes. Almost everyone agrees Cook County’s real estate tax system is in need of major reforms, and at least some believe Assessor Fritz ...

A Cook County senior is upset because his property tax refund is delayed, and it turns out what he thought was a small problem is actually a big mess affecting 25,000 taxpayers. A few years ago, Tom ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- With a motion to repeal the sweetened beverage tax expected to come before the Cook County Board next week, Board President Toni Preckwinkle was once again defending the tax on ...

The final costs of purchases of cigarettes, firearms, poker machines, and items totaling more than $3,500 that Cook County, Illinois businesses and residents make outside the county will rise under ...