Cook County approved a 2026 property tax levy of $13,780,089 on December 16, marking a 7.57% increase over the previous year.

The Chicago Board of Education voted to slightly increase its property tax levy, to yield up to an additional $25 million for ...

Treasurer Maria Pappas' office took "emergency steps" to send some of the more than $8 billion in property tax funds due to ...

District U-46 is among the taxing bodies finally receiving Cook County property tax revenue it should have been paid in the fall.

The Cook County Treasurer's Office is providing $2.3B in emergency funds to local governments after long-delayed property tax ...

A federal judge ruled Cook County is illegally settling minor property tax debts by seizing the full value of properties. Illinois law still allows the practice.

A federal judge ruled that Cook County’s system for handling unpaid property taxes violates the Constitution, delivering a major victory for homeowners who lost their properties and accumulated equity ...

The Cook County Board of Review will extend the appeals window for some townships. After a four-month delay, many Cook County property owners got a shock when their property tax bills arrived. The ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The latest installment of Cook County property tax bills is online and being mailed out, and you may be one or the 1.3 million homeowners seeing a higher bill. A new study from the ...