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

Opinion: A pending federal appeals court ruling involving an Illinois tax foreclosure case will address how immunity ...

CHICAGO, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas plans to postpone the Annual Tax Sale for seven months, during which time she hopes to work with legislators on comprehensive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As election season kicks off in earnest and the Springfield veto session hurtles to its conclusion, Cook County Board President ...

Thousands of South Side homeowners could face property tax sales next year, even though many owe relatively small amounts, according to county data.

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Two and a half years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Illinois and other states take an unconstitutional route to collecting delinquent property taxes, five suburban counties are going ahead with ...

The due date for property tax bills has come and gone, but Cook County officials remain under siege. On one side, a group of pastors are pressing the assessor, members of the Board of Review and the ...

Cook County approved a 2026 property tax levy of $13,780,089 on December 16, marking a 7.57% increase over the previous year. The approved levy is $969,788 higher than in 2025. Total budgeted expenses ...