Legislative reforms to Cook County’s property tax system almost uniformly stalled this legislative session, halting efforts to give tax breaks to more seniors and those walloped with big bills, and to ...

Cook County's delinquent tax sales, which have been on shaky ground since the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the system unconstitutional three years ago, are now being challenged by a class of former ...

Late last year a federal judge ruled that the tax sale system used by Cook County is unconstitutional, violating both the Fifth Amendment and Eighth Amendment. Cook County conducts an annual sale for ...

Housing costs are high across the state, and especially in Cook County. And with a housing shortage to grapple with, many in ...

A stalled tax enforcement system is quietly giving Chicago landlords a break. Hundreds of commercial properties — including distressed Loop office towers and downtown hotels — are sitting on tens of ...

Cook County is currently embroiled in one of the worst property tax situations of the modern era. What started as a computer glitch quickly spiraled out of control, revealing the systemic failures in ...

A year after the bills were sent out, Harvey’s 2023 property tax collection rates are the third lowest in Cook County, a study of collections by the Cook County treasurer’s office has found. The study ...

Three years after a group of homeowners and community organizations filed suit claiming the county’s tax sale system robbed them of their home equity, a federal judge has ruled the system ...