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

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 officials announced on March 2 that first-installment 2025 property tax bills have all been mailed by the treasurer’s office on schedule.

Although she claims homeowner and senior exemptions, McCaskill does not reside in the home, which is a vagrant. The Cook County Assessor’s Office has referred the matter to its erroneous exemption ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As she campaigns for a fifth term as Cook County Board president, Toni Preckwinkle is saying the unit of government she directly ...

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 ...

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