Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas held stock for years in a company with a major contract working in her office, a potential ...

Proposed legislation would make Illinois compliant with a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision stating property owners are ...

The Democratic primary for Cook County Assessor may be the nastiest of the cycle, with an incumbent's track record versus a challenger's notorious surname. The big picture: Fritz Kaegi is running for ...

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

State legislature enacted a one-time-only extension to help taxpayers with the short gap between bills.

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- A new study shows that many south and southwest suburban Cook County homeowners are facing record-high property tax increases. It's according to a new analysis done by Cook ...

Maria Pappas is the treasurer of Cook County, Illinois, the second-largest county in America. She is now 75, and some time ago, the treasurer developed a bucket list. MARIA PAPPAS: I want to, you know ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Cook County property owners who overpaid ...

Village library leaders have added their voices to the chorus of complaints about delayed and sporadic distributions of Cook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The due date for property tax bills has come and gone, but Cook County officials remain under siege. On one side, a group of ...

Illinois has not yet overhauled its tax sale system to comply, leading legal experts to warn that sales will add to the county's potential financial exposure.