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.

After a year of finger pointing between a private company and Cook County, property owners are finally getting property tax ...

A Cook County senior is upset because his property tax refund is delayed, and it turns out what he thought was a small problem is actually a big mess affecting 25,000 taxpayers. A few years ago, Tom ...

Under a bill that cleared committee in Springfield, annual tax sales — the government’s way of dealing with delinquent ...

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 ...

Cook County is currently embroiled in one of the worst property tax situations of the modern era. What started as a computer glitch quickly spiraled out of control, revealing the systemic failures in ...

The next installments of Cook County property tax bills are due on Wednesday. Fox Chicago wanted to provide a fairly basic explainer of why paying property taxes is even a thing. Property taxes are an ...

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 -- 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) -- 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.