COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- Hundreds of properties throughout Cook County are being misclassified or undervalued, resulting in a significant loss in tax dollars. That's according to an investigation by ...

One local woman is still owed more than $9, 000, but her hold up started years before the computer upgrade mess.

Illinois lawmakers are clashing over a Cook County property tax relief plan that restricts the types of evidence the Cook ...

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 ...

Cook County will soon distribute $1,000 payments to some homeowners who saw a significant spike in property taxes in the past years, the county announced in April. The Homeowner Relief Fund — a $15 ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is defending a cut to the property tax value of his home this year as his neighbors’ rose by big margins, by explaining it was other homeowners who had been getting a ...

The Cook County property tax system’s transition from a 50-year-old information technology system has had its share of missteps and delays due to its vendor, Tyler Technologies. But in any transition ...

It’s still unclear when Cook County homeowners and other property owners will receive their property tax bills, top officials ...

Fritz Kaegi, tormentor of downtown landlords, is back at it. After trying unsuccessfully to push through big commercial assessment hikes in Chicago last year, the Cook County assessor is trying again ...

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