and ensure that the property tax system is fair and accessible for all Cook County residents,” assessor’s office spokesperson Christian Belanger wrote in a statement Thursday. While Kaegi’s ...

Real estate investors are downright scared of Chicago property taxes. Almost everyone agrees Cook County’s real estate tax system is in need of major reforms, and at least some believe Assessor ...

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 ...

Following a deep-dive investigation by the Chicago Tribune and the Illinois Answers Project, Cook County Assessor Fritz ... new construction and significant property improvements on at least ...

There’s been ongoing controversy over property valuations in Cook ... by County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s office, followed “years of squabbling” between the office of Assessor ...

The median property values for the 1.17 million single-family homes and condominiums examined in Cook County only rose from $224,000 to $240,000, according to data from the Cook County Assessor ...

Illinois and Cook County officials have spent more than $250 million after hiring a Texas company to overhaul outdated, error-ridden computer systems. The three projects are taking years and are ...

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 ...

Tuesday afternoon, Jackson County Assessor Gail McCann Beatty said Cook's ruling had "caused confusion and concern." "Our mission remains what it has always been: to ensure every property is ...

Democratic Cook County officials are marking their territory. County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Sheriff Tom Dart, Treasurer Maria Pappas and Assessor Fritz Kaegi have all declared or ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful ...