County leaders blame a private company's computer system upgrade. Those computer problems were fixed to send your property tax bills, but not your refunds.

Anyone who has seen their latest tax bill can attest to the strain on the checkbook.

Roughly 20,000 approved certificate-of-error refunds, worth more than $46 million in total, are currently stuck at the Cook ...

Skyrocketing property taxes​ continue to be a hot-button issue in Cook County — particularly since last fall, when many residents saw their tax bills increase by 100% or more.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ report calls on Democratic leaders that run state government to enact significant reforms ...

Taxing agencies — including schools, parks, libraries and cities — sent property tax bills totaling $19.2 billion in 2024, up more than 180% from the $6.8 billion taxing districts required property ...

The primary driver of the tax burden is school districts, which accounted for nearly 55 percent of all property taxes in 2024 ...

The next portion of Cook County property taxes are due on Wednesday. Here's a primer on why we even have property taxes.

A new report from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas shows property taxes collected by county taxing bodies over the past 30 years grew at twice the rate of inflation. In 1995, Cook County local ...

O’Connor discusses the implications of the court’s ruling on Cook County’s tax sales CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, April ...

Cook County’s property tax system is a Rubik’s Cube for even those relatively steeped in assessments and equalization factors ...