This story is a collaboration between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune. Nearly half a billion dollars in taxable real estate value has been added onto the Cook County rolls ...

In the coming weeks, Cook County Property Owners will receive their 2025 Property Tax Statements and 2025 Valuation Notice. The 2025 Valuation Notice contains important information on the Assessor’s ...

The Cook County Assessor’s Office released a new public dataset containing building permits submitted to the office by ...

An investigation reveals significant misclassifications in Cook County property assessments, with many properties incorrectly ...

Typical property tax bill increased 78% on a Cook County residence since 2007. Median property values only rose 7.3%. That leaves residents paying $2,558 more a year in property taxes while their ...

KSHB 41 reporter Charlie Keegan covers politics in Kansas, Missouri and at the local level. Share your story idea with Charlie. A Jackson County Circuit Court judge ruled Monday that the Missouri ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi corrected hundreds of property misclassifications after an audit. At least 620 properties were misclassified or undervalued ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is pushing the federal government to release property appraisal data to the country’s largest assessors to help improve the accuracy of property tax assessments ...

With a year to go until the 2026 primary election, Democratic Cook County officials are marking their territory. County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Sheriff Tom Dart, Treasurer Maria Pappas ...

This ankle monitor is used in Cook County’s electronic monitoring program. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share The Cook County sheriff’s office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring ...

The member of the Lake County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals who inspired a PTABOA member Indiana residency bill left the board earlier this year, officials said. Samantha Steele, who is ...