Proposed legislation would make Illinois compliant with a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision stating property owners are ...

Cook County homeowners have all been granted an extension in paying their first-installment property tax bills for 2026.

State legislature enacted a one-time-only extension to help taxpayers with the short gap between bills.

O'Connor discusses how delayed property tax payments affect Chicago pension funding. CHICAGO , IL, UNITED STATES, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- More than $100 million is waiting to be claimed by Cook County homeowners as ABC7 partners with the Cook County Treasurer's Office for the Our Homes Matter phone bank. The eighth ...

Village library leaders have added their voices to the chorus of complaints about delayed and sporadic distributions of Cook ...

Illinois has not yet overhauled its tax sale system to comply, leading legal experts to warn that sales will add to the county's potential financial exposure.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas held stock for years in a company with a major contract working in her office, a potential ...

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 ...

O'Connor discusses how 2025 was a year of chaos for Cook County and Illinois. CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, January 19, ...