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

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

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 ...

TINLEY PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- Property taxes are due Friday December 1 and as that deadline looms, some residents say they were over-assessed. These residents say they are facing unprecedented increases ...

Regarding Sunday’s article on the Cook County assessor’s office (“Misclassifications, missed millions”): I am amazed at the complete incompetence of Assessor Fritz Kaegi and his staff. How can he ...

CHICAGO — A Cook County Assessor’s Office employee is calling the increase in property taxes for many homeowners a once in a generation event due to a number of factors. Residents living in several ...

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 ...

Property assessments double for 37,000 homes in Chicago’s historically neglected neighborhoods amid fresh investor interest.

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