The Tribune requested the past four years of tax returns from the Democratic candidates for Cook County Board president and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Candidates running for office in Cook County started filing their paperwork Monday. The race for the assessor's office is expected to be heated after recent controversy over property ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This story is a collaboration between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune. Nearly half a billion dollars in taxable real estate value has ...

The Cook County Assessor said the county’s commercial businesses saw millions of dollars cut from their property tax bills this year, and the burden was shifted onto homeowners. Camilla’s Kids Just ...

A former top official in the Cook County Assessor’s Office was sentenced to two years of probation on Tuesday after admitting to taking bribes and, later, helping the feds investigate corruption ...

Real estate investors are downright scared of Chicago property taxes. Almost everyone agrees Cook County’s real estate tax system is in need of major reforms, and at least some believe Assessor Fritz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cook County Democrats punted Thursday on endorsing anyone for Cook County assessor, putting two-term incumbent Fritz Kaegi at risk ...

ORLAND TOWNSHIP — After a months-long delay, this year’s second installment tax bills are finally set to be issued, Orland Township Assessor Rich E. Kelly's office announced Monday. Bills will be ...

Illinois taxpayers would help pay property tax bills for low-income Chicago-area residents to help soften the blow of tax bill spikes under a proposal in the works from Cook County Assessor Fritz ...

COOK COUNTY - A homeowner in unincorporated Chicago Heights is reeling after receiving a property tax bill that assessed his modest 1950s home at over $1 million. Darryl Lloyd, who purchased the three ...