It took little time after this year’s Cook County property tax bills became public for the political gamesmanship to begin. This year’s bills showed Chicago homeowners’ median property tax bills ...

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 ...

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, ...

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