With Cook County property tax payments due December 15, Treasurer Maria Pappas says payment plans are available for those ...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas column explores options to help pay property taxes by Dec. 15 If you can’t pay your taxes by the December 15 due date, ...

CHICAGO, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas plans to postpone the Annual Tax Sale for seven months, during which time she hopes to work with legislators on comprehensive ...

Within days, the metastasizing debate over who was responsible for the rising tax burden collided with deepening ideological rifts in Chicago and Cook County.

A federal judge dismissed claims that Cook County’s sales of properties over their tax debt are racially discriminatory. To claim the disproportionate number of Black- and Latino-owned properties sold ...

A lawsuit against the city of Chicago alleging that sales of properties over tax debt were racially discriminatory has been dismissed. A disproportionate number of Black- and Latino-owned properties ...

Chicago faces the largest property tax increase in 30 years, which will severely affect neighborhoods in the south and west.

Cook County’s property tax appeal process shifted $1.91 billion in taxes from businesses onto homeowners over the last three years, exacerbating inequities in the city and suburbs, a new report found.

Due to Cook County’s zero-sum property tax system, a controversial valuation process hammers neighborhoods with little ...