A new study calls for government agencies involved in the Cook County property tax system to better collaborate to help the system become more fair and equitable, as a growing chorus of homeowners ...

County officials said they would be mailing 1.8 million first installment property tax bills for the 2025 tax year by March 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illinois’ current property tax assessment system dates back to the year Apollo 13 launched and the Beatles broke up. Cook County officials say it's finally time for the 55-year-old framework to get an ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As she campaigns for a fifth term as Cook County Board president, Toni Preckwinkle is saying the unit of government she directly ...

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 second ...

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