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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do you tell when people are overburdened by property tax bills? You could listen to what people are saying, of course, or make a comparison with rates for comparable property in other states. But ...