CHICAGO - From the city to the suburbs, property owners in Cook County have been frustrated with rising real estate taxes, especially as the next round of payments are due on Wednesday, April 1. The ...

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Cook County’s property tax burden grew far beyond inflation and wage growth over the past three decades, intensifying pressure on homeowners and businesses and exposing structural cracks in Illinois’ ...

Property taxes outpaced inflation and grew “well above wage growth” over the last 30 years, shooting up nearly 182%, according to a new report from the Cook County Treasurer’s office. The county’s ...

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Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi and the top challenger to unseat him in next month's primary election agree the local property tax system is broken. But they are pointing fingers in very different ...

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 ...

Plans are underway to sunset Cook County’s contentious property tax sale system in the coming years. Last week, state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago, filed a bill to bring Illinois into compliance ...