For Cook County residents hoping to lower their property tax bills, applications are open for exemptions.

Cook County homeowners have all been granted an extension in paying their first-installment property tax bills for 2026.

At least two local agencies missed debt service payments after the Cook County, Illinois, treasurer's office was unable to ...

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

O'Connor discusses how the Cook County tax bills are due on April 1. CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2026 ...

The state has not yet updated its law, exposing counties to potential liability, and two legislative fixes have been introduced to address the issue.

Delayed distributions of Cook County property tax revenues cost Orland High School District 230 $1.3 million, officials say.

New data show homeowners in Cook County are struggling to pay their property tax bills, after those bills jumped by record amounts in some cases.

The head-to-head featured Fritz Kaegi accusing Pat Hynes of being beholden to property tax attorneys and Hynes arguing Kaegi ...

Democratic Board of Review members Samantha Steele and George Cardenas have feuded. Both face opponents with lots of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County residents who tried to prepay their 2018 property taxes at the Cook County Treasurer's Office today didn't wait long, but thousands of others have already paid their bill.

Hynes got his start as a commercial appraiser of industrial properties and later became a longtime employee of the Cook County Assessor’s Office. He worked under former assessor ...