A federal judge ruled that Cook County’s system for handling unpaid property taxes violates the Constitution, delivering a major victory for homeowners who lost their properties and accumulated equity ...

CHICAGO -- ABC News, ABC-Owned Television Stations and the ABC7 Chicago I-Team are finding that too many Black and Latino homeowners are being "highballed." They are more likely to pay higher property ...

This is a particularly bad year in Chicago for second-installment property tax bills to arrive late. One year after Cook County property tax officials congratulated themselves for getting the second ...

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The due date for property tax bills has come and gone, but Cook County officials remain under siege. On one side, a group of pastors are pressing the assessor, members of the Board of Review and the ...

Karin Schluecker Korth says her house is too big for her, but she doesn’t want to leave. It holds the memory of her late husband Bruce, who died in 2015; his spirit is in the house, she says. Her ...

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COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — At the Cook County Building, a coalition of African American pastors rang the bell for what they said is an economic emergency. Rev. Ira Acree and clergy representing 20 ...