In the waning days of Springfield's spring session, Cook County leaders appear to have ended a years-long stalemate, brokering legislation to phase out the tax sale industry that has bolstered local ...

Legislative reforms to Cook County’s property tax system almost uniformly stalled this legislative session, halting efforts to give tax breaks to more seniors and those walloped with big bills, and to ...

A federal judge has ruled in a class action lawsuit that Cook County’s “Tax Sales” violate the US Constitution, potentially putting the county on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to compensate ...

Late last year a federal judge ruled that the tax sale system used by Cook County is unconstitutional, violating both the Fifth Amendment and Eighth Amendment. Cook County conducts an annual sale for ...

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 ...

If you are still staring at your eyewatering Cook County property tax bill — due Dec. 15, as in Monday — you might well be wondering what would happen if you failed to pay in a timely fashion. First, ...

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 ...

Cook County and its treasurer's and clerk's offices have beaten, for now, claims brought under a class action accusing the county and its officials of discriminating against black and Latino ...

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A stalled tax enforcement system is quietly giving Chicago landlords a break. Hundreds of commercial properties — including distressed Loop office towers and downtown hotels — are sitting on tens of ...