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 ...

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 ...

Cook County will mail 1.8 million second installment property tax bills for Tax Year 2024 on November 14, with payment due by December 15. The county also offers tools like the Housing Market Tracker ...

Dana Kozlov is an Emmy Award-winning political investigative reporter for CBS2 Chicago. Prior to joining the station in 2003, she worked at WGN, CNN Chicago and WEEK-TV in Peoria, where she began her ...

The Cook County property tax system’s transition from a 50-year-old information technology system has had its share of missteps and delays due to its vendor, Tyler Technologies. But in any transition ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- More property owners in suburban Cook County have failed to pay property taxes on time after record increases. That's according to the Cook County treasurer. Maria Pappas ...

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 ...

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