Cook County is offering more tools, data, and transparency to help property owners understand and verify their property assessments. From open data releases to detailed methodology worksheets, ...

After a judge declared her not guilty in her DUI trial, Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele is ...

A Cook County official who was charged with driving under the influence in November of 2024 was found not guilty Tuesday.

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 ...

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 new report from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas shows property taxes collected by county taxing bodies over the past 30 years grew at twice the rate of inflation. In 1995, Cook County local ...

The frustration Cook County homeowners feel about rising property taxes came out loud and clear in Tuesday’s race for county assessor — losing incumbent Fritz Kaegi performed the poorest in areas of ...

Races for Cook County Board president and assessor as well as a few county board races in Lake County are among the local races to watch in Tuesday’s primary elections. The hotly contested Democratic ...

While property taxes became a focus across the country in 2025, the biggest story by far was the disaster in Cook County. Starting with computer issues, things cascaded into multiple massive errors ...

East Dundee & Countryside Fire Protection District, Illinois, defaulted on a debt service payment after Cook County fell behind on property tax collections. When Cook County, Illinois, ran into ...

While it may seem like a low bar, Cook County’s ability to get out its tax bills on time was an accomplishment few would have expected. Thanks to numerous computer problems, the county took months to ...