Toni Preckwinkle announced Tuesday she is again setting aside $300 million to loan to local governments to help them balance ...

Last year, her office opened a $300 million Property Tax Bridge Fund Program to help municipalities to bridge the funding gap ...

The next round of Cook County property tax bills will be delayed by approximately two months, officials announced Tuesday.

Second installment property tax bills are typically released in early July and due in early August, but those bills have been repeatedly delayed by an overhaul of the county’s property tax system ...

A year after a monthslong delay in property tax bills left some Cook County school districts and other local governments scrambling to meet their financial obligations, county leaders announced ...

Critics of Cook County’s assessment system, including incoming Assessor Patrick Hynes and engineer Vaughn Harrison, say her ...

Cook County is on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to homeowners who lost their homes and equity as a result of the annual county tax sale, a judge has ruled.

Tatiana Squire, a first-time homeowner in Riverdale, was shocked when her annual property tax bill jumped to nearly $17,000 ...

Since 2020, nearly 2,500 homeowners not only lost their properties but also the equity they had in those homes after their delinquent property taxes were sold. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled those sales ...

CHICAGO - Property taxes in Cook County have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, according to a new study from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office. Over the past three decades, ...

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.