The Cook County Assessor told the I-Team that market values are up and that assessments increased greatly in the south suburbs in the recent 2023 reassessment.

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- Hundreds of properties throughout Cook County are being misclassified or undervalued, resulting in a significant loss in tax dollars. That's according to an ...

It turns out what Tom Kuznar of Mount Prospect thought was a small problem is actually a big mess affecting 25,000 taxpayers.

The Cook County assessor values property, and if a taxpayer doesn’t agree with the findings, they can appeal to the Cook County Board of Review, which has three commissioners.

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is proposing a new plan to provide property tax relief for low-income residents of the Chicago area, many of whom have been hit hard by the area’s rising tax ...

Property taxes have increased every year in Illinois for the past three decades. For the 2026 budget season, legislators and ...

As a result, these commercial property owners pay the county’s residential tax assessment rate rather than its commercial tax assessment rate, which is 2.5 times higher.

One patient in suburban Cook County came to an ER with symptoms and was isolated, while the other was from Chicago and ...

A former Cook County Assessor’s employee admitted Tuesday he helped hatch a scheme that illegally lowered tax bills for certain commercial properties by more than $150,000 over three years ...

A federal jury on Tuesday acquitted a suburban fencing contractor on charges of bribing Cook County assessor’s office employees with access to an exclusive Michigan golf club in exchange for ...